A pair of tourists from the US fly into to London for business and pleasure... and abruptly find themselves drawn into a battle for the freedom of human souls threatened by a new and terrible kind of slavery. 

Joy, chafing a little against the current boundaries of her marriage, strikes up an odd friendship with a young man staying in the little B&B that her husband's big company's yearly convention has forced them into. But the oddness of it all gets seriously worse when she discovers that her handsome young friend, along with just about everybody else resident in the tiny hotel, is dead. 

Her investigation of the locally-cozy weirdness turns horrifically dark when Joy learns that her fellow hotel guests (and many other "unpassed-over" souls) are being stalked and kidnapped by the minions of an amoral billionaire who sees them merely as an unexploited resource... one waiting to be used to increase his already-obscene wealth. 

Now Joy has to choose a side. Does she want to go home while knowing she's left human souls to be sucked into eternal bondage? Or will she take a stand, even though doing so may destroy her comfortable life forever?

Please note that DEAD AND BREAKFAST is a screenplay-format work which has previously appeared in the Midnight Snack collection.