In "Pilgrim", the Executive Director of the state department of mental health repairs to the Cape to teach at a month-long seminar and finds himself ensnared in a conspiracy that aims to destroy his life. To his horror, he discovers that his wife, who died two years earlier, was the first victim, and he will surely be its latest. In "Synergy", a self-described fat little girl whose family runs an inn enlists the help of a twelve-year-old boy, a Cape visitor, to find out the reason behind the disappearance of her mother when Synergy was an infant. Answering that secret sets forth a series of intrigues and murders that follow the children for decades, threatening their livelihoods and eventually their lives."Cape 'Scape", a series of essays on their experiences of Cape Cod and its attractions by Michael Gandy and his bride, cover illustrator Susan Neral Gandy, round out the mysteries.The Gandy Mysteries is a promotional and outreach division of Maximizing Individual Potential ().