The Inn Keeper — Luisa Buehler

A runaway slave and a society girl lay entombed in an Oak Park cellar.

Renovations turn gruesome when skeletal remains are uncovered in the basement of an old boardinghouse. Forensics adds a twist; the remains were entombed eighty years apart! Separated by age, gender, social status, and basic human rights the mystery of their identities and their deaths is overshadowed by the unlikelihood of their final resting place.

Grace is drawn into the bizarre discovery when early police reports cast suspicion on her friends.