Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

After her husband is murdered, Reggie Lucas' life becomes even more more complicated when a large sum of money turns up missing and a trio of gangsters come looking for it.

An unassuming college teacher, Sarah is handed an essay by a gifted pupil and loner Jacob. As she sits down and starts to read his essay there is a striking similarity to her own life and suddenly it becomes a race to stop the chilling ending predicted...