Lasting Shadows

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a shadow box worth? Quinn Tilman is taking a working retreat under the guise of research and solitude in a little town called Nock. Known by his pen name, Anni Que, he writes the kind of risqué romance ladies tend to hide in bedside drawers. While away from the drama and constrictions of his wife and daughter, he deals with a persistent former lover and entangles himself with the locals. With a population of less than a hundred living residents, history, news and gossip leak from the tiny town in the form of shadow boxes. Who is telling everyone’s secrets? And how long before Quinn’s are revealed?