When genealogist Bethany Jones accepts an unusual assignment from eighty-six-year-old Cornelia McAllister, she expects to spend her time searching through old records and tracing a family's past.
She never expects the past to come looking for her.
Inside a century-old East Texas farmhouse, secrets have been hidden for generations-behind walls, inside books, and among the forgotten remnants of an old sawmill town. What begins with a missing deed soon leads Bethany to a forbidden love, a family line kept secret for nearly a hundred years, and old company tokens tied to an injustice that was never made right.
But some secrets were buried for a reason.
A powerful man wants the McAllister property, and the closer Bethany comes to uncovering what Edwin McAllister left behind, the more dangerous her search becomes. With the help of those who have come to mean far more to her than she ever expected, Bethany must follow the clues Edwin left behind before the truth-and the people it could finally set right-are lost forever.
If walls could talk... well, these do.