COMING IN 2027

by Andrea Mots Rodgers

In 1892, aspiring novelist Margo Jacobs believes she has found a story worth writing. Encouraged by the man she loves - Doc - she begins to unravel the buried truth of a brutal murder in Des Moines, Iowa nearly twenty years earlier.

In 1874, Ella Barrett, a young woman of twenty-seven, was slain with a hatchet in her rented apartment above McFarland’s Store at Walnut and 7th Street. Three men confessed, were convicted, and sentenced. But whispers of a hidden hand behind the crime linger.

Before Margo can finish her book, she is found drowned—her death ruled a suicide by jumping off a bridge. But Doc refuses to believe it.

Now, in Present Day, an elderly woman in a nursing home—dismissed as suffering from dementia—says she is visited by Doc. It’s time to bring justice to Ella Barrett and uncover the true fate of Margo Jacobs.

This is a tale of love across centuries — and about the ghosts that won’t rest until the truth is told.