Although lazy Detective Martin Garcia has ruled that Erma fell from a highway bridge, her body shattered by the truck that hit her on the roadway below, Erma insists that she was pushed from the bridge. Her precarious peace is shattered by the death of Erma Singleton, manager of a bar owned by Matias Romero, her common-law husband. Since most of her attempts to talk to someone about her special power while she was growing up on the reservation ended in disaster, she’s tried to keep it to herself during her five years with the Albuquerque Police Department. The winding path to the truth showcases both the strengths and the weaknesses of the loving sisterhood.Įmerson’s striking debut follows a Navajo police photographer almost literally to hell and back. Soon, more volumes turn up, and research into them by Nora's librarian friend, Bobbie, provides clues to the mystery that put the sleuths on the road to a ruthless killer. The murdered man isn’t identified until Hester confesses a long-buried connection. When a man is found dead with a similar book in his pocket, it proves to be one of a series about successful women written in an era slow to approve of working women.

As she's busy planning special events for Valentine’s Day, Nora is upset to discover copies of The Scarlet Letter with the name Hester scraped off, and Hester is puzzled to find an odd book left in her bakeshop.

Hester is soon to be engaged to Deputy Jasper Andrews, and Nora herself has fallen for Sheriff Grant McCabe.

Miracle Springs, North Carolina, bookstore owner Nora Pennington strives to pick the perfect reading material for her customers while dispensing delicious drinks and bakery products created by her friend Hester Winthrop. Though all the members have survived troubling times in their lives only to become stronger in their sisterhood, one of them is still hiding a secret that stirs up a killer. The members of The Secret, Book, and Scone Society tangle with a killer who strikes close to home.

A Killer Plot by Ellery Adams