The old man finished a glass of wine—his favorite claret—went to bed, and died. Now more than fifty years later, Nashville attorney, Ann Sims, is preparing to auction off his estate—a derelict old mansion with its long-forgotten secret. Sims has lived with a secret of her own, a secret that could cost her the fortune she is in line to inherit and end her career.
M. Thomas (Tom) Collins is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs of the information technology industry. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ALM publication Law Technology News for his contribution to the use of technology in the legal services community. Citytech, a London-based publication, called him an "outstanding individual and visionary" when he was named as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders.
Although retired from the commercial world, he continues to write and speak on leadership and management as well as pen his series of Mark Rollins adventure mysteries. Tom Collins writes from his home in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Music City, Nashville, where his characters come to life and frequent familiar places in the bucolic middle Tennessee landscape.