A long-buried secret, a forgotten crime, and a killer who will do anything to keep the past buried. When the local high school opens a fifty-year-old time capsule, innkeeper Paisley Penrose expects nostalgia, not a cold case. Half a century ago, a school janitor was found dead, and a troubled student was eventually blamed and sent to prison. Case closed. But as Paisley and her crew of quirky companions begin cataloguing the capsule’s contents, unsettling clues surface. Was the real culprit Raymond Caldwell, the former vice principal who ruled by authority and discouraged dissent? Jack Donnelly, the hard-nosed football coach who bent the rules to get results? Or Leonard Pike, the facilities manager with too much to hide behind locked doors? With handsome Detective Grant Halloway and her sharp-nosed Labradoodle, Noodle, Paisley digs into half-remembered alibis—until someone makes it clear her questions aren’t welcome. And if she doesn’t stop digging, she may become the next secret buried at Sandlin High.