Murder and the Forgotten Fortune

A Willow Creek Cozy Mystery - Book Eight

In Willow Creek, history isn’t just preserved—it’s protected… sometimes fatally.

When respected historian Harold Whitcomb dies after a fall near the town’s historic root cellar, most call it a tragic accident. But Cynthia Harper—former NYC strategist turned small-town B&B owner—has learned that Willow Creek’s calm exterior often hides careful rearrangements. With her golden retriever Duke sniffing out tension as reliably as crumbs, Cynthia starts asking inconvenient questions about missing archive pages and a trust tied to valuable land.

The town’s polished Historical Society president insists everything was “withdrawn for review.” A board member with deep ties to the Whitcomb parcels seems nervous about property lines. And Franklin, ever watchful, is already spinning quiet reassurance before facts are settled. Everyone claims to be protecting the town.

But protection can look a lot like control.

As official records shift and timelines tighten, Cynthia realizes that exposing the truth could fracture the community she’s come to love—and put her squarely at the center of a very public reckoning.

Because in Willow Creek, whoever controls the past controls the future… and someone is willing to rewrite both.