... De "oeconomia" incarnationis secundum s. Sophronium Hierosolymitanum

Quaker midwife Rose Carroll is enjoying the 1888 Independence Day evening fireworks with her beau when a teenaged Quaker mill girl is found shot dead. A former slave and fellow Quaker is accused, and Rose delves into the crime, convinced of the man' s innocence -- only to be threatened by the murderer, with three lives at stake.