Cilla's movie-star grandmother, the Marilyn Monroe–like Janet Hardy, who died mysteriously on the farm at age 39, haunts Cilla as she transforms the former hideaway of the rich and famous into habitable living space and tries to resolve whether Janet committed suicide or was murdered.
And if Cilla and Ford are unable to sort out who is targeting her and why, she may - like her world-famous grandmother - be cut down in the prime of her life.Roberts sets her underwhelming latest in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where former child star Cilla McGowan rehabs her famous grandmother's long-neglected farm. The mystery only deepens with a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault. Cilla can't help but wonder what really happened all those years ago. In the attic, she has found a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that Janet Hardy was pregnant when she died - and that the father was a local married man. But love and a peaceful life may not be in the cards for Cilla. Determined not to perpetuate the family tradition of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford's quirky charm, but she can't help indulging in a little fantasy. Plunging into the project with gusto, she's almost too busy to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer - but his lanky form, green eyes, and easy, unflappable humor (not to mention his delightfully ugly dog, Spock) are hard to ignore. By coming east, rolling up her sleeves, and rehabbing this wreck of a house, Cilla intends to find some kind of normalcy for herself. And during waking hours, Cilla is haunted by her melodramatic, five-times-married mother, who carried on in the public spotlight and never gave her a chance at a normal childhood. To this day, Janet haunts Cilla's dreams. An actress with a tumultuous life, Janet entertained glamorous guests and engaged in decadent affairs - but died of an overdose in this very house more than thirty years earlier. Sadly, no one was able to save her grandmother, the legendary Janet Hardy. Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin.
And that's exactly how Cilla McGowan wants it. Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is a long way from Hollywood.
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