Jacey Forestar spends her time mostly in seclusion, writing romance novels, perpetually lost in her own literary worlds of ghosts and dashing heroes. She is also troubled with a curse many people would call a gift. After she finds out her childhood friend has been brutally murdered, disturbing visions and dreams become more frequent, and she decides to return to her hometown of Poplar Hill. While searching for answers about her friend's murder, Jacey meets Morgan DeArmand, and for the first time in her life, she falls in love. But after moving back into the gothic revival home where she grew up, she realizes the spirits have never left, in fact, they have been waiting for her to return and bring her dark destiny into fruition. Determined to use her psychic gifts for good and bring justice to her murdered friend, the depths of evil of the house and some of the townspeople are revealed. Jacey realizes that by burying the past, she has unearthed brutal and terrifying secrets that threaten not only her life, but her soul.