Sally Good's husband has been dead for eight years; his remote ancestor, Sarah Good, died on the scaffold in Salem more than four hundred years ago. Yet the president of Sally's college is afraid the story will reflect badly on them. Sally finds his concern ludicrous, but the college is in a very conservative part of Texas - local citizens are trying to have Harry Potter books removed from the library - and an important bond issue for the college is coming up. Then a former faculty member whose departure Sally was instrumental in securing turns up murdered.
