![]() But his secretary, Luther, intrigues Willa more because of his clear fondness for the Dickinson sisters. Willa Noble, the second maid in the Dickinson home and Emily's friend, encourages her to speak to the famous but stern man. She is determined to impress him with her quick wit, and if she can gather the courage, a poem. ![]() Emily has been a longtime admirer of Emerson’s writing and is thrilled at the chance to meet her idol. Emily’s brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst to speak at a local literary society and decides he and his young secretary, Luther Howard, will stay with the newlyweds. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Some very high-powered people will stop at nothing to keep their profitable secrets even if that means forever silencing Willa and her new mistress.Īugust 1856. Viewing it first as a puzzle to piece together, Emily offers to help, only to realize that she and Willa are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse that reveals corruption in Amherst that is generations deep. Henry had been very secretive of late, only hinting to Willa that he'd found a way to earn money to take care of them both. With no other family and nowhere else to turn, Willa tells Emily about her brother’s death and why she believes it was no accident. Tragedy soon strikes and Willa's beloved brother, Henry, is killed in a tragic accident at the town stables. What begins as tenuous employment turns to friendship as the reclusive poet takes Willa under her wing. As the housekeeper politely told her they'd be in touch, Willa started toward the door of the stately home only to be called back by the soft but strong voice of Emily Dickinson. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost all hope of being hired for the position. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. It will take all her investigative skills, a tenuous friendship (or is it something more?) with the local sheriff, and some help from Shiloh's trusty pug, Huckleberry, to prove the cops are barking up the wrong cherry tree and put the real killer behind bars for good.Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower. ![]() And when they discover her cousin Stacey had been secretly dating the man in question-and that he was married to someone else-Shiloh begins to worry that everything she has worked so hard to accomplish with her family's farm is about to be taken away. When the death turns out to be more suspicious than a cherry pit down the wrong pipe, Shiloh finds herself under local law enforcement's microscope-she has developed something of a reputation for being unwittingly involved in local murders. and the fact that her coup has sent her next-door neighbor and organic farming competitor into fits of jealousy doesn't hurt, either.īut the festive atmosphere at the farm market takes a dark turn when a man entered in the famous cherry pit-spitting competition chokes and dies right in front of Shiloh, who is standing near the sidelines as a spectator. It's a huge win in her master plan to bring the rundown farm back to life. Murder is the pitsShiloh Bellamy can hardly believe it-for the first time in her family farm's seventy-year history, she has managed to score a highly-coveted booth at the Cherry Farm Market in Traverse City, Michigan.
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