Twenty-something neophyte detective, Marcie Rayner, has put one murder investigation to rest at Blake Investigations in New Ulm, Minnesota, when another case, emanating from the same source (her mother), lands in her lap. When Helena Heatherbrae, the wealthy proprietress of an iconic architectural structure east of Minneapolis is found dead, her cook is positive it was murder. To complicate matters, Marcie has just taken on another client who's convinced her fiancé is cheating on her.
As Marcie juggles both cases, she learns that the secrets hidden in the labyrinthine Mystery Castle are nothing in comparison to the ones stemming from her clients. Using her newly acquired skills as a detective, coupled with her own street smarts, Marcie navigates through a maze of off-beat suspects as she probes deeper into both cases. The caveat is when she finds her client's philandering boyfriend is linked to the Mystery Castle in a way she never imagined.
The closer Marcie gets to finding the truth behind Helena's death, the more she realizes some secrets are better left undisturbed.

A former teacher and middle school principal from upstate New York, Ann always had a passion for writing. As a sideline to her career in education, Ann wrote for a number of trade journals before turning her attention to mysteries. She got her feet wet writing YA time travel novels and then joined forces with her husband, James Clapp, to write cozy mysteries under the pen name of J.C. Eaton. To date, they are penning three mystery series - The Sophie Kimball Mysteries, The Wine Trail Mysteries, and the Marcie Rayner Mysteries. The couple resides with their four-legged friends in Sun City West, Arizona, where sunshine doesn't need to be shoveled. Visit the websites at: www.jceatonauthor.com and www.timetravelmysteries.comJames E. Clapp With a background in construction, a degree in business and a successful tour of duty with the U.S. Navy, James never envisioned himself writing cozy mysteries along with his wife, Ann I. Goldfarb. In fact, the only writing he did was for informational brochures and workshop material for the winery industry where he worked as a tasting room manager in his home state of New York. When he and his wife left the Snow Belt for the Arizona desert, he was hit with the writing bug. Under the pen name of J.C. Eaton, he began the journey into cozy mysteries,