The year is 1947; the location is New York City. The pair has been hired to look into the disappearance of retiree Vera Bodine, who has embarked on a late-in-life mission to expose Nazis hiding in postwar America, an uncommon and dangerous avocation for an 80-year-old. Bodine is reputed to have a photographic memory, and there are some villainous characters who would like to pick her brain or silence her forever. Perhaps both. Lillian, the senior...

Meredith catches sight of a mysterious man lurking around her home--and he has an uncanny resemblance to her deceased husband! However, he disappears before she can approach him. Could he have anything to do with the 18th-century writing desk Meredith inherited earlier in the day? Or the freshly revealed, long-hidden diary written by Anna Coles, one of the first women to colonize Savannah in 1733? Before Meredith can identify this man, the Coles diary...