Composer and pianist Elisabeth Winters returns to the United States after the Civil War to find that her life is in jeopardy. By those who killed her father? Or by the suave and charming man whose presence taunts an unrecovered memory?

In Frozen in Time, Susan Snow Lukesh takes a mid-nineteenth century photo album from New Bedford, Massachusetts, created against the almost unmentioned backdrop of the Civil War, offering details of daily living, marrying, working, and dying.