In this fourth installment of An Ordinary Mystery series, Anne Hambaugh comes upon an old family journal that raises questions about Ordinary's early days: about the town's first murder, about valuables gone missing on the journey from the Old Country, and about the presumed guilt of one man and the blacklisting of a founding family. In looking into Ordinary's past, perilous things happen to Anne, her family and friends, in Ordinary's present.

And so begins her latest mystery ... to solve Ordinary's first mysteries from 1793!

On the very day that seventeen-year-old Anne Hambaugh gets her driver license she is all but run off the narrow, winding road to the town of Ordinary. It is soon learned that the criminal mastermind from her first mystery is on the loose. Was he behind the steering wheel? Is he the enigmatic dark-haired and bearded stranger behind present day misdeeds? Or is there someone else involved? And ... is there a connection between past and present?

Will Anne be able to solve these questions before anyone gets seriously injured? Or worse?