Bound By Thread

When wedding planning uncovers a ninety-year-old conspiracy, Emma must solve a Depression-era murder before her own wedding day. Emma Hargrove is finally planning her dream wedding to Detective Mick Bryant at the historic Maple Creek Community Center. But when renovation work uncovers human remains buried beneath the building's foundation, her wedding venue becomes a crime scene—and the bones appear to be nearly a century old. The discovery coincides with quilting circle member Anna Curtis finding hidden documents in her great-grandmother's sewing basket, papers that detail systematic embezzlement at the town's bank during the Great Depression. When historian Franklin Ashworth is found murdered while researching the 1933 bank robbery, Emma realizes someone is willing to kill to protect a family secret that has shaped Maple Creek for generations. As Emma and her quilting circle decode Ruby Curtis's carefully hidden evidence, they uncover a conspiracy involving multiple prominent families who have built their wealth on stolen money and covered-up murder. With descendants of the original conspirators growing desperate to protect their reputations, Emma must navigate a dangerous web of inherited guilt and family loyalty while federal agents investigate financial crimes that span four generations. But when the truth threatens to destroy the economic foundation of half the businesses in town, Emma discovers that some people believe ninety-year-old blood money is worth killing for again. With her wedding just days away and conspirators closing in, Emma must expose the truth before she becomes the next victim of a crime that was supposed to stay buried forever. Because in Maple Creek, the deadliest patterns aren't found in quilts . . . they're woven into family secrets. Book 6 in The Quilting Club Mysteries.