<p><em>Sometimes the past reaches out to the present...</em></p><p>It&rsquo;s been thirteen months since Calamity (Callie) Barnstable inherited a house in Marketville under the condition that she search for the person who murdered her mother thirty years earlier. She solves the mystery but what next? Unemployment? Another nine-to-five job in Toronto?&nbsp;</p><p>Callie decides to set down roots in Marketville take the skills and knowledge she acquired over the past year and start her own business&nbsp;Past &amp; Present Investigations.</p><p>It&rsquo;s not long before Callie and her new business partner best friend Chantelle Marchand get their first client: a woman who wants to find out everything she can about her grandmother Anneliese Prei and how she came to a &ldquo;bad end&rdquo; in 1956. It sounds like a perfect first assignment. Except for one thing: Anneliese&rsquo;s past winds its way into Callie&rsquo;s present and not in a manner anyone&mdash;least of all Callie&mdash;could have predicted.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>