After her husband's devastating betrayal, Hannah takes her son Nicky to stay with an ailing relative at Ashton Hall, a historic manor outside of Cambridge, England. Hannah had put her art-historian career on hold to care for her neurodivergent son, but her academic interest is piqued by the Jacobean estate, especially when Nicky finds the skeletal remains of a woman inside a hidden room. As Hannah dives into Ashton Hall's archives to discover what could have happened to the Elizabethan-era woman—all while dealing with Nicky's violent mood swings and the unraveling of her marriage—she finds unexpected camaraderie with the victim, despite the centuries between them. Th is is an atmospheric gothic mystery to savor! (AG)