It's summer, 1942. Wealthy Santa Fe banker Edgar Woodcock, playboy and womanizer, is murdered on a deserted road in his shiny new Packard. With no shortage of suspects, the town is rocked by stories of infidelity, blackmail, and espionage, yet the case is never solved.Fast-forward to the summer of 1998 when Walker Stiehl starts his career in hotel management in Santa Fe. Passionate about history, classic cars, and mysteries of the past, he discovers Edgar's 1940 blue Packard coupe. For nearly fifty-five years it's been in Mrs. Woodcock's tumble-down garage on Don Gaspar Street. Is the classic car linked to the murder? Inquisitive, the more Walker probes the car's history, the more he becomes involved in the past.Determined to find answers to a nearly forgotten crime, Walker presses on, tumbling through the barriers of time to research Santa Fe's past. Complicating life is the lovely Maggie who joins him on travels through time to meet players of the still unsolved Woodcock murder of 1942. Can they unravel the haunting mystery? Or is Walker tempted to abandon Maggie and his career, remaining in the past?
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