In the summer of 1890 two young women posed for artist Winslow Homer on the coast of Maine. What happened that summer, the secrets the women kept, and the lies they told, changed their families forever.

Now, more than a hundred years later, one of their descendants has been murdered, leaving antique print dealer Maggie Summer the family papers that may finally reveal the truth. Maggie's vision of a relaxing vacation in Maine - antiquing with beau Will Brewer and visiting his Aunt Nettie - changes into a murder investigation as Maggie realizes she must discover which of the family myths are based on reality before someone she cares about - or maybe she herself - becomes the next victim.