Jix Haynes and her husband Bill run a lucrative business restoring old trunks. Jix also manages a crowded, thriving household that includes her mother, daughter, granddaughter, and a dog named Willowdean. Gnawing curiosity leaves Jix and side kick, Abby Gayle, with no choice but to find time to investigate a disappearance and possible murder. A cry for help recorded in the pages of a diary found buried deep inside a trunk, which has been locked for thirty years, sends the sleuth duo on a page turning search for the truth...or something close to it.