Willi Taft, a feisty studio singer in Nashville, is bored with her life. More excitement than she wants comes her way when a local P.I. lands her in the middle of a murder investigation. Soon she suspects the killing is related not only to a twenty-year-old crime, but to her own past as well. When bullets and rumors start to fly in her direction, she finds herself abandoned by friends, shunned by business associates, and targeted for murder. But why? For the answers, Willi must walk alone down the thin line between life and death, where past and future meet, the Midnight Hour.

Civil War professor Jada Winston is murdered. World-renowned opera star Althea Preston retires from the stage and returns home only to receive threatening racist letters. Two things connect these the haunting landscape of Northwest Alabama and a 135-year-old secret. Willi Taft returns to her roots to unravel ties still binding a town’s residents to the land and to a dark past.

Private Eye Willi Taft gets in the holiday spirit at a Celtic Christmas concert. When a kindly old priest is stabbed to death after the show, one of the Irish musicians comes under suspicion and pulls his friend, Willi, into an investigation that will change her life. This is the third book in the Willi Taft series set against the backdrop of the music scene in Nashville, Tennessee.