From Publishers Weekly
A small Southern town reckons with its buried past when a Civil War professor is murdered and a famous retired opera singer receives threatening letters in Mary Saums's (Midnight Hour) The Valley of Jewels. PI Willi Taft returns home to investigate the murder and, after surviving a Civil War reenactment, Klan activities and attempts on her life, she uncovers a secret that's been kept quiet for 135 years.
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Product Description
Civil War professor Jada Winston is murdered. World-renowned opera star Althea Preston retires from the stage and returns home only to receive threatening racist letters. Two things connect these events: the haunting landscape of Northwest Alabama and a 135-year-old secret. Willi Taft returns to her roots to unravel ties still binding a town’s residents to the land and to a dark past.
