The title suggests a narrative centered on the weight of memory and the "shadows" cast by people from our past—specifically, a friend who may no longer be present, but whose presence (or the mystery of their disappearance/death) continues to haunt the protagonist.
This is the first book in The Flynn Brothers Trilogy. It is a romantic suspense novel set in New Orleans, following Aidan Flynn, a private investigator, and Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader, as they investigate haunted rumors and a series of mysterious disappearances at a plantation.
The story follows Melody Tarleton, who is driving home for the holidays when she encounters a man appearing out of nowhere in the middle of the road. She hits him, but he survives—and he is dressed in a strange, historical costume. The man is Jake Mallory, a Patriot soldier from the American Revolutionary War (1776) who was about to be hanged when he was suddenly transported to the present…