Marble and Mud

Stewart's Camp, California, is just a tiny, rusty place, forgotten amongst the hills of the Gold Country, but it's also a town with a past. And the past tends to visit the present-with or without invitation.

New to Stewart's Camp is Lauren Fischer, idealistic suburbanite nurse. She's dreamt of owning an old house-something with character. Now, thanks to an unexpected inheritance from an eccentric neighbor, she has one. Sort of.

It's bigger than she pictured it, filthy, run-down, packed with j...