Torie O'Shea is taking a week off from her job as a genealogist with the historical society in a historic river town in Missouri in order to plan for Christmas and her annual family reunion. But in the midst of preparing for the influx of relatives, Tory discovers an old newspaper clipping with information about her own family tree that she's never known before: Her own great-grandfather was murdered, and the crime was never solved. Torie can't help but do a little investigating on this fifty-year-old crime. But she never dreams that past history she thought was long buried could resurface in the present in such a deadly way.