Small-town drama belongs in the gossip column. This one ends up in my bookshop like a bookmark I can't pull out.
I like my days filled with fresh shipments, quiet customers, and mysteries that stay safely between the covers of a good book. My best friend, Lucy, prefers cupcakes, coffee, and the kind of town gossip that usually blows over by supper.
Then Gerald disappears.
One minute, everyone is laughing about another argument between Gerald and Agatha. The next, the whole town is convinced they know exactly what happened.
I don't.
Neither does Baxter, my clue-sniffing schnauzer, who keeps leading me to answers that raise even more questions.
The deeper Lucy and I dig, the more Summerfield's carefully guarded past begins to unravel. Old rumors refuse to fade, trusted friends start keeping secrets, and someone is determined to make sure the truth stays buried.
Some stories are meant to stay on the bookstore shelves.
This one is about to rewrite the town's history.