When thirteen year old Dacy Winfield selects a button from her Grandmother's button box she picks murder. The button belongs to a jacket of Penelope Winfield's -- Grandy's -- first love, wounded war veteran Luke Newman. Luke rented a room, stole her heart, disappeared. Springfield's Sheriff Mullaney insists Luke was murdered. Dacy knows from experience how it hurts to lose a first love. She senses Grandy's pain when she holds the button. Her Scorpio nature demands she and Grandy find Luke. Helping means spending time together: a motherless neglected teen age kid with small boobs and a lonely Senior who revels in her flapper days. Luke's ring, his evil identical mirror twin, Mark, a concealed cavern with hidden gold, cemetery land, a corrupt corporation, sneaky Sheriffs, the Booth family, old pictures and newspapers, wristwatches, a best friend's father, and unexplained blood force Dacy to dig deep. Almost her own grave. Someone is trying to kill her. She knows too much.