It’s Christmas time and Nancy Drew has a new assignment. Stanyan Manor has been vacant for the last decade. The matriarch of the manor, centuries ago, was a strange lady, reclusive, quirky, obsessed with cats and mysticism. The home is covered in cat art, and it is said there is a hidden treasure in the home, which, if fallen into the wrong hands, will curse that person to turn into a cat for the rest of their days. The family resided peacefully for a long while, until one year, a horrible and mysterious accident resulting in a death caused the heirs to scatter. The home remains in their name, for now, but has been empty, aside from a stray cat, Major Green Bean, who has taken up a home there.
Hugo Penvyllyn had employed Abby Sideris to manage the property, which she had been doing for the last ten years, opening the home for tours and pushing to have it converted to an event space. But after Hugo’s divorce, and subsequent remarriage to Linda, he wants to return home with his new bride to bring life to the place. Shortly after their arrival, things seem amiss. People think Stanyan Manor is haunted, and report hearing spooky ghost noises wandering the halls.
Worse than that, however, is Linda seems to have fallen ill. What started out as a mysterious and intense craving for fish has morphed into something more sinister. She has started sleeping 18 hours a day. She is affectionate only when she wants food or you don’t pay attention to her, and then suddenly snaps at you. She’s taken to hiding in odd places around the manor. Lately she doesn’t leave the bathtub. Conversation has dwindled to a bare minimum, except for strange catlike noises. And the latest transformation might be the most shocking! her body is covered in...fur?
You’re all Nancy Drew. Or you can be Ned if you prefer. His job is just “Nancy’s boyfriend” but he can be a detective too, just this once. Nancy (and Ned) follow Barbie and Ken rules. You have to be Nancy Drew but you can be any Nancy Drew you want.