Torie O'Shea is taking a week off from her job as a genealogist with the historical society in her hometown, an old Missouri river town, in order to plan for Christmas and her annual family reunion. Crazy cousins, multiple houseguests, dinner parties - it's a lot of work for a mother of two. But in the midst of preparing for the influx of relatives, Torie discovers something about her own family tree that she's never known before. Her own great-grandfather was murdered, and the crime was never solved.. "Torie can't help but do a little investigating on this fifty-year-old crime. But she never dreams that past events she thought long buried could resurface in such a deadly way.