A Dangerous Business

When Grace Marshall embarks on a personal journey of self-discovery, she has no idea of the train of events that decision will set in motion. Her car breaks down outside the small town of Whitford in the midst of Victoria’s former goldfields. While it is repaired, she stays at Rosewood, a local Bed-and-Breakfast. There she sees an antique music box, which exerts an unexplained pull on her. When she meets the owner of a struggling small craft shop, Grace decides to stay on for a while in Whitford and establish an art gallery in the former old pub called Flanaghans. However, the descendants of the four families who established Whitford a century before are keepers of some deep secrets, which Grace’s arrival forces into the open. She bears an uncanny resemblance to a young woman who left Whitford a century before, unmarried and pregnant, taking with her an antique music box. When someone recognises this resemblance, they decide to reclaim the box and its suspected contents, an obsession which leads to a series of tragic events, before it is restored to its rightful owner and its contents revealed.