Construction is underway at the Sheffield Bed and Breakfast as Brenda and Mac begin building their new cozy cottage. But when they make a surprise discovery that points toward a decades-old cold case, Brenda starts piecing together a sinister story… one that involves the guests staying at their very own inn.
As the pair begin to unravel the secrets behind the long-buried murders, Brenda is brought face-to-face with her main suspects: the seemingly upright textile broker Logan Clark, and Annette Pickard – a possessive novelist who refuses to let prying eyes into her latest manuscript. And after Logan vanishes from the inn without a trace, Brenda knows she must act fast if she wants to catch the culprit before they can slip away.
Fighting to peel back the ghosts of the past and shine a light on her small town’s history, Brenda becomes convinced that the answers to her questions lay hidden in the novel that Annette is guarding as if gold. The question is, have the answers been hidden in plain sight all along? And was there something far more sinister behind Logan’s disappearance than meets the eye?