Secrets That Defy Time. An inconceivable disaster strikes, bringing Tori Winters' plans to turn her historic house into a bed and breakfast inn to a traumatic standstill. A section of the escape tunnel built by her great-grandfather, a notorious Dallas gangster, collapses. Within the rubble, there is a gruesome discovery. A skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull. The shocking cave-in sparks more than a police response. Accusations that the tunnel is dangerous triggers an ominous scheme to condemn her property. Tori soon discovers more than the destruction of her beloved house is on the line. It seems she can't escape the past. It keeps clawing its way into her life with deadly consequences. Someone wants to permanently shut her down.