A cold case buried in ledgers. A murdered historian. A bookbinder with secrets-and cats.Welcome to Chadwick Hollow, where the books bite back.When introverted bookbinder Tamsin Rowe inherits a dusty old bindery in a fog-soaked New England town, she expects tea, solitude, and quiet restoration work-not a client who turns up dead, and a hidden ledger linked to a 150-year-old disappearance. The deeper Tamsin digs into the town's history, the more tangled it becomes-and someone will stop at nothing to keep the past hidden.But Tamsin isn't alone. With the help of a disgraced historian, a missing diary, and a pack of highly judgmental cats, she begins to unravel the mystery of Margaret Price, the forgotten matriarch who may have known too much-and paid the price.