Uprooting The Family Tree

In a surprising turn of events, Celeste Adams learns she has a family connection with her longtime friend, Kristy Stone. Not only did Celeste's late husband, Howard, have ancestors who lived on the same property as the Gran Vista Hotel, but Kristy's Aunt Grace and Howard were first cousins. When they examine Grace's research, an unsettling secret emerges. 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 present-day Gran Vista. After the initial arrest report, the evidence dissolves—no court records, no trial, no verdict. With her friends joking that Gran Vista's reputation for murder began one hundred and seventy-two years earlier, Celeste resolves to dig beneath layers of secrecy and discover the truth, even as the answers threaten to remain forever hidden.