To find her missing aunt, she has to unearth the secrets of the past. But lies and deceit run though the very heart of their town....
What started out as a promising relationship with adventurer and tycoon Alec Zavos has fizzled into an uncertain future for antiquities expert Annalisse Drury. Returning to Walker Farm in Upstate New York to see her Aunt Kate should have been a welcome homecoming and distraction. Instead, she finds the childhood home she expected to inherit is for sale, without her permission. What's worse, Kate's ranch manager makes a gruesome discovery in the barn: the body of an unidentified man, dead by foul play. Annalisse turns to Alec for help. She and her aunt shelter on his estate in the Catskills while the authorities canvass the scene. But when Kate herself disappears without a trace, Annalisse fears the worst: that one of the many secrets of her hometown has ensnared her family-a secret someone is willing to kill for to keep hidden.