Return to Ordinary

A journal found in an abandoned, cream-colored, 1934 Studebaker President roadster has Anne Hambaugh—our youthful investigative journalist with the Ordinary Outlook—and her friends off on a new mystery.

Written by a woman in late June 1943, the journal tells of her return to Ordinary to recover a stolen top-secret government object vital to the war effort. An unfriendly government desperately wants it and will do whatever it takes to obtain it.

Her source has been eliminated only minutes before their rendezvous and it is now up to Anja Matthaus—aka: Ann Matthews—to piece together the puzzle to recover the pilfered property. But she quickly learns that she is not the only one seeking it.  Is this person a friend, or foe? Her mission takes an unpleasant twist as it nears completion.

Sixty-seven years later, the job falls to Anne to solve the mystery surrounding Anja Matthaus. But there is more to it, Anne soon discovers. There is also the matter of mending the broken heart of a girl from decades before, closing a missing person cold case, and recovering a hidden treasure.

Lurking in the shadows is another who wants to reap the financial reward, and who will stop at nothing to get it. This could end very badly for Anne and her friends.