Caren Gray is in charge of visitor services at Belle Vie, a stately antebellum plantation in Louisiana. Not only is Caren African American, but she has ancestral ties to the home, which sometimes makes things complicated—a modern Black woman promoting a romantic sugar-coated portrayal of plantation life for tourists and wedding parties has its incongruities, to say the least, which the author exploits to full effect. When an itinerant worker from the adjacent farm is found murdered on plantation land, an investigation uncovers some interesting surprises. The ending of this novel is a bit unexpected, and I found that the history of a parallel figure in Caren’s past stretched the bounds of credibility somewhat. I liked the potential of this book, but don’t think it lived up to it. It had its moments, but it didn’t quite gel for me.