"Maggie Watson's quiet empty-nester life is a lot less peaceful since inheriting Sedgwick Manor and the adjacent antiques shop and she's still not sure it suits her. To help her decide, Maggie sets out to restore an old humpback trunk. After uncovering one page of a love letter tucked inside, she definitely can't leave town, not until she finds out who wrote it. In the letter. a vaudeville performer confesses to a bank robbery. Maggie asks James Bennett for help researching but his attitude about the trunk quickly grows dark. Is there something he's not telling her? After someone breaks into her house and tries to steal the letter, Maggie is determined to get to the bottom of things. Will Maggie be able to expose the history of the letter without losing James as a friend? And to what lengths will someone in this small town so to keep the secrets of the past buried?" -- Book jacket.