Courtney Martin turns to Nate Winslow for help to finish college, because Nate was her father’s step‑brother. But it is Nate’s son Jeff who resents Courtney and her influence on his father. And all the time, shadows are drawing close over the Winslows’ house, Hearthstone — the shades of yesterday…
An “accidental historical” is a book which was contemporary at the time it was written, but the passage of time has turned it into a classic period piece (e.g., before cell phones, Uber, no-smoking laws, and many modern attitudes).