The Cedar Ridge Hotel has survived ninety years of storms, scandals, and secrets. On the eve of its anniversary celebration, developer Clayton Voss arrives determined to buy the aging landmark. By nightfall, he is dead inside Room 214. Sixty-eight-year-old widow Evie Mercer has spent a lifetime reading county records-and the people who file them. When a stolen letter, a missing hotel key, and a forged deed tie the murder to a decades-old disappearance, Evie cannot ignore the trail, especially when it reaches into her own family's past. With retired schoolteacher Hank Calder beside her and Sheriff Eli Knox trying to keep them both out of trouble, Evie must untangle generations of carefully guarded lies before another secret keeper is silenced.
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