A bestselling memoirist is dead, ten pages are missing, and someone in Larkspur will kill to keep the final draft buried.

Paper conservator Clara Whitcomb expects The Paper Finch's first writing retreat to be a peaceful weekend?until controversial memoirist Celeste Arden arrives promising a tell-all packed with explosive small-town secrets, including one involving Clara's late Aunt Birdie.

Before Celeste can reveal a word, she's found murdered beside a vintage typewriter.

With suspects everywhere, Clara turns her forensic eye to four contradictory manuscript drafts. Strange pagination, printer defects, hidden corrections, and a clever acrostic code point to ten missing pages that could expose ghostwritten passages, diverted fortunes, and a decades-old death.

As Clara follows the clues buried between the lines, she realizes the killer isn't finished editing the story.

And if she uncovers the truth, Clara may become the final chapter.