The ringing of the phone awakens Corey at two in the morning. The pounding of her heart and the queasiness in her stomach tell her it has to be bad news. The news was worse than bad – a summons from the dead. Her mother was saying her father was in coronary care at Masontown Hospital and wanted to see both of them. Shaking her head to make sure she was awake, Corey says, But, Mom. My father is dead! Sherylee Kahlor admits to lying to her daughter and Corey finds herself, her fiance, Roger and even their Bengal cat, Reggie, thrown into a 70-year-old mystery. Murder, kidnapping, catnapping, and general chaos plague them because of a diary her great-grandfather wrote while serving time for bank robbery. The past, not buried and forgotten, needed resurrected.