New Mexico engineer Tory Travers is summoned home to Gainesville, Florida, where her estranged father, a powerful senator, lies in a coma after a hit-and-run accident. While preparing to face the demons of her past, Tory finds herself unwittingly embroiled in a complex, emotionally charged and deadly conspiracy connected to a 1923 racial massacre -- the torching of a town called Rosewood.
The mystery intensifies the moment Tory and Detective David Alvarez leave the airport and witness a fellow passenger -- a graduate student funded by Rosewood-related legislation -- killed by a speeding car. Another victim, also connected to her father, is murdered and Tory becomes a suspect That is, until a killer determined to silence Rosewood's secrets forever decides Tory would be better off among the ashes of the dead, as well.

Released on Thursday, March 04, 2004 at Book Rack Used Book Store on Young St. in Ormond Beach, Florida USA.

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