#1 – The Lady in Residence
San Antonio, 1915. Young widow Hedda Krause checks into the Menger Hotel with jewels, fine clothes and a plan to secure a wealthy husband. After an apparition draws her from her room and her jewellery disappears, suspicion falls on Hedda, even as admirers begin giving her…
#2 – Hope Between the Pages
Clara Blackwell helps run her family’s century-old Asheville bookshop, but declining business threatens to end the inheritance passed down through generations. A forgotten letter written by her great-great-grandmother suggests that an unresolved romance and an undiscovered legacy may offer the shop a future. With only the…
#3 – Bridge of Gold
Underwater archaeologist Kayla Richardson is called to the Golden Gate Bridge after restoration work reveals two sets of human remains associated with different stages of San Francisco’s past. Diving with project leader Steven Michaels, she finds evidence that connects a nineteenth-century Gold Rush mystery with the…
#4 – Undercurrent of Secrets
Wedding coordinator Devyn Asbury works aboard the historic Belle of Louisville and hopes a national venue competition will restore her confidence after a broken engagement. Chase Jones arrives with a photograph from the 1920s that appears to link the steamboat to an unresolved family secret. A…
#5 – Behind Love’s Wall
Interior designer Willa is invited to advise on changes to the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. During work in a guest room, she discovers a journal written more than a century earlier by Lily, a celebrated singer whose public identity concealed painful secrets. The journal leads…
#6 – High-Wire Heartbreak
Historical novelist Chloe Whitfield visits Ca’ d’Zan in Sarasota to investigate stories about her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, reputedly a noted trapeze performer. A surviving poster places Lucinda at John Ringling’s seventieth-birthday gala in 1936, when a robbery and possible death disturbed the celebration. Lucinda’s child was…
#7 – Love’s Fortress
After her art-forger father dies, Dani Sango inherits a book of Native American ledger drawings and asks museum curator Brad Osgood to determine whether it is genuine. Their research leads to Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine and to the imprisonment of seventy-three Plains Indians…
#8 – A Promise Engraved
San Antonio, 1836. Josie Wilkins loves John Gilbert, a Protestant preacher forbidden to practise openly under Mexican law, but she fears that the secrets of her past will make marriage impossible. Political tension turns into war before either can decide how much truth their relationship can…
#9 – Laura’s Shadow
De Smet, South Dakota, 1890. Mariah Patterson loves Cap Garland despite his continuing attachment to Laura Ingalls. Convinced that devotion can overcome both family expectations and Cap’s idealised memory of Laura, she risks reputation and security by declaring what she wants. In 1974, Mariah’s great-granddaughter Trixie…
#10 – Passages of Hope
During renovations to her grandmother’s Philadelphia house, Gracie Kingston discovers a concealed room connected by a passage to the nearby home of abolitionist William Still. Questions about the property’s ownership suggest that the building was part of a larger network whose history was deliberately obscured. In…
#11 – In Spotlight and Shadow
Violinist Elise Malvern works behind the scenes at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall while fear prevents her from auditioning for the orchestra. An apparently worthless stage necklace draws her and country-music star Pierson Brooks into a historical mystery tied to the building’s earlier life as Loew’s Penn Theatre.…
#12 – The Keys to Gramercy Park
Journalist Andrea Andrews discovers post-Civil War counterfeit notes hidden inside the wall of her Gramercy Park apartment. The evidence could provide the historical investigation needed to advance her career, but it also threatens the reputation of Beau Davidson-Quincy, a candidate for governor whose family once owned…