A Brother's Gift

For Nell Prentice life is good. She has her satisfying if not always remunerative work as a Boston private investigator the pleasure she takes in the ancient classics her old friend Martha and new love Tom and her good-natured cat Woody. The troubles and even tragedy that have marked her life are receding further and further into the past.<p>But then the past catches up with Nell in the form of a wholly unexpected gift that brings both joy and danger. To confront that danger Nell must go on a journey that will stir old ghosts and awaken a mystery that has lain disturbingly unsolved for years. At the end of Nell's quest a moral dilemma pits her conscience against her need to protect those she considers family.<p>This is Nell's most personal case ever. She must travel deeply and painfully into the past in order to secure the future for herself and those she loves.