On a chilly evening in March, 1917, 17-year-old Virginia Lampley disappears from her upper-class home in Richmond, Virginia. Her straight-laced parents never see or hear from her again. Seventy years later, her granddaughter Christine begins a determined search for Virginia, using a single diary entry as the only clue to her whereabouts. In March, 1977, austere and cheerless reference librarian William Wilson begins his own diary in an attempt to...