Six Vintage Dresses Left in a Cedar Trunk on Oak Street

and round on her finger. “He has been our family lawyer since before Daddy died, Martha. Everyone in Oakhaven knows him. They trust him with their wills.”

“That is exactly why we can’t let him settle this in his office,” I said.

I took her flour-covered hand in mine, feeling the warmth of the kitchen still radiating from her skin. “I continue reading …