Book excerpt: Two years after Beverly Holden escaped her small hometown in the Kansas foothills for an exciting new life in California, she receives a mysterious message that her younger brother has gone missing after working for the dying heiress of Mirror Manor. Pulled back to her hometown to find her brother, Beverly is offered a choice: return to California and forever abandon her family and the small town where she grew up, or stay and inherit Mirror Manor's ten-million-dollar estate upon the heiress's death. The decision seems easy, but Beverly can't help but wonder what her new wealth will cost?