Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington head to Washington, D.C., to compete against dangerous adversaries in a hunt for Abraham Lincoln's Civil War diary, a record that contains information that could change history and influence key elections.

Vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton has been estranged from her best friend Kathy Cooper since they were teenagers, but never knew what turned Kathy against her. Then, at a Fourth of July picnic, Jaymie discovers the body of her former friend in the park. Nearby is Jaymie's Depression-glass bowl, broken in two. With her fingerprints on the bowl and a troubled history with the victim, Jaymie is at the top of the list of suspects....