Kate Hamilton is leading the charge of recreating her hometown of Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction. The Barton mansion, meant to be the centerpiece of the Victorian village, has proven to be a goldmine of documents about the town s nineteenth-century history, and Kate is convinced the papers hide something of value. When a dead body turns up in the town library mere hours before the documents were meant to arrive there themselves Kate begins to worry that the papers spell danger instead of dollars. It seems that someone doesn t want these forgotten secrets coming to light, and they ll do whatever it takes to keep Kate quiet.
