Kate Hamilton is leading the charge of recreating her hometown of Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction. The Barton mansion, meant to be the centerpiece of the Victorian village, has proven to be a goldmine of documents about the town�s nineteenth-century history, and Kate is convinced the papers hide something of value. When a dead body turns up in the town library � mere hours before the documents were meant to arrive there themselves � Kate begins to worry that the papers spell danger instead of dollars. It seems that someone doesn�t want these forgotten secrets coming to light, and they�ll do whatever it takes to keep Kate quiet.