When the owner of Westcombe Abbot Garage & Stores dies after more than twenty years as a recluse, Billy and Ollie Ashcombe are asked to value what he left behind.
Behind the doors of the long-closed village garage lies an extraordinary time capsule: classic cars, old petrol pumps, workshop tools, shop stock and decades of motoring history, all apparently abandoned exactly where they stood. For Billy and Ollie, it could be one of their most fascinating assignments yet?and perhaps a collection worth preserving intact.
But the garage has another story to tell.
More than twenty years ago, its owner was supposed to marry a local woman who disappeared on the morning of their wedding. Everyone assumed she had run away, and the garage closed soon afterwards.
Then Billy begins a routine inspection of an old Rover.
What she finds inside changes everything.
As a forgotten disappearance becomes a murder investigation, Billy and Ollie must look again at the memories they have gathered and separate what people actually know from what an entire village has simply believed for twenty years.
Because sometimes the past isn't lost.
It's been sitting there all along.
