The nearly sixty year old pamphlet Rachel found contained everything her best friend, Lane, longed to know about the obscure history of his deceased great-grandfather. It touted the pianist's musical prowess, his success as a college music professor, and his uncanny knack for bringing out the best in his piano students. Rachel couldn't wait to show Lane her find, but the penciled-in comment at the bottom of the first page stopped her cold. "Justifiably shot in the back by his wife one morning as he was dressing, because of another woman." Set on a course of unraveling the truth about the 1930s life and murder of Lane's great-grandfather, Rachel discovers parallel truths about herself and Lane as she opens the story of his great-grandparents and the woman who was his great-grandfather's supposed lover.