When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower.
Emily and Willa set out to find them in order to save the Dickinson family reputation and stop a cold-blooded fiend from killing again..
Emerson, aghast at the death of his secretary, demands answers.
It seems that he was poisoned.
However, Emily\'s fears are squashed When Luther turns up dead in the Dickinson\'s garden.
Miss Lavinia, Emily\'s sister, appears to be enchanted by Luther; a fact that bothers Emily greatly.
After a few days in his company, Willa starts to believe it\'s the latter.
Willa does not know if Luther truly cares for one of the Dickinson girls or if he just sees marrying one of them as a way to raise himself up in society.
But his secretary, Luther, intrigues Willa more because of his clear fondness for the Dickinson sisters.
Willa Noble, the second maid in the Dickinson home and Emily\'s friend, encourages her to speak to the famous but stern man.
She is determined to impress him with her quick wit, and if she can gather the courage, a poem.
Emily has been a longtime admirer of Emerson\'s writing and is thrilled at the chance to meet her idol.
Emily\'s brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted When famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst to speak at a local literary society and decides he and his young secretary, Luther Howard, will stay with the newlyweds.
The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street.
August 1856.
When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower
