When Iowa native Cael Seaforth signed on in her expertise in renovations in her grandfathers hometown and his family's own home in Tearns Georgia, she never expected to be lured into intrigue in her southern roots or heritage. Her cousin Thomas Chariton is one stumbling block as is handsome, sexy, bad boy Jackson Hines also on the project. Between her newly befriended land lady Ada Brighton, best gal pal, Melody Hewlett and her great Aunt Tillt, Cael learns more than she really bargained for about the skeletons in her estranged family's closet. Especially when a German POW id unearthed in the old cook house. The stunning project manager Racheal Weiss who recruited her even gets into the mix when Cael discovers the secret no one wanted to get out. How the skeleton was related to them all and just how desperate someone can be to keep it a secret.