Description: The Antique Auction Affair
Every treasure has a price.
Maple Hollow is about to become the center of the antiques world.
A nationally televised appraisal event has arrived in the charming Vermont town, bringing cameras, collectors, family heirlooms, and more than a few residents convinced the dusty object in their attic is worth a fortune.
Harper Sullivan is happy to enjoy the spectacle-especially while her parents, Claire and Tom, are visiting the farmhouse with enough boxes of family belongings to make her question the true meaning of inheritance.
Then one appraisal changes everything.
A rare nineteenth-century mechanical bird, hidden for decades in a family attic, is revealed to be worth a staggering amount of money.
Even more surprising?
It once belonged at Blackwood Manor.
Before expert appraiser Dr. Celeste Armand can explain the antique's complicated history-or reveal who truly owns it-she is found murdered inside the Maple Hollow Historical Museum.
Her research is missing.
So is the priceless Blackwood Nightingale.
As Sheriff Luke investigates the murder, Harper follows a tangled trail through old estate inventories, family photographs, insurance records, forged documents, and a theft that happened decades ago.
The deeper she digs, the clearer one thing becomes:
The Nightingale has passed through many hands.
But inheritance and ownership are not always the same thing.
And someone has built an entire life around making sure nobody looks too closely at where this treasure really came from.
With family chaos at the farmhouse, Sadie's growing confidence as a young journalist, and another piece of Blackwood history unexpectedly resurfacing, Harper must separate what was inherited from what was stolen-and uncover the truth before another secret disappears for good.
The Antique Auction Affair is a warm, character-driven cozy mystery filled with Vermont charm, family history, historical intrigue, small-town secrets, and another twisty case for Harper and Luke.
Welcome back to Maple Hollow-where every heirloom has a story, and some stories are worth killing to keep hidden.