Uprooting The Family Tree

Through her longtime friend, Kristy Stone, Celeste Adams learns that her late husband, Howard, had ancestors who lived on the property where the present-day Gran Vista Hotel stands. Kristy's Aunt Grace has also made an unsettling discovery. Howard's third great-grandfather had been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of his brother-in-law, with the body being found in the creek behind the Gran Vista. After the initial arrest report, the evidence seems to disappear—no court records, no trial, no verdict. With her friends joking that Gran Vista's reputation for mysterious deaths began over a hundred and seventy years earlier, Celeste resolves to dig beneath layers of secrecy and hidden records to uncover the truth, even as the answers threaten to stay buried.