Minnie Freeman is a woman on a mission to move to a new city, open a hotel, and stay independently wealthy. Her plan is hindered by the dead body found at the bottom of the new automatic elevator shaft and a sigil linking it to other deaths in the city. Now, she’s got to solve the murder, or her hotel may never have its grand opening.

2021 Winner of the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for emerging writers of color in crime fiction.