Hopewell Shores has its secrets.
Eight days before Hopewell Heritage Days, quilt restorer Jeanelle Murphy arrives at the Quilting Guild Hall for her first major assignment as its newest member. Instead, she finds Miss Agnes Whitmore motionless beside the worktable and an unfinished message in Agnes’s notebook.
As Jeanelle documents the alterations to a donated heirloom quilt, hidden stitches begin to trace the Hopewell shoreline and point toward Pier 4, where redevelopment threatens to reshape the town. With the official investigation underway, she lends her trained eye to clues concealed in fabric, paper, and generations of guarded family history.
But as records disappear and loyalties strain, Jeanelle must uncover the truth without betraying the quilting guild’s confidences or tearing apart the community she longs to serve.