For over 130 years the Rodger's family has been plagued by tragedy. Emma had spent the yearly years of her life on the family farm in Missouri but when her father died in a horrible accident her mother took her and left vowing never to return. Now Emma has returned to settle her grandmother's estate. Emma might be an archaeologist but never had she searched for remnants of the past so diligently and frantically to find answers to the mystery that blankets her father's family. Everything seems to be tied into an old tombstone that was found on the farm many years before and the date of death on the headstone is eighteen eighty one. The secrets are buried in the family history and the only clues she has are from the recently deceased and you can't wake the dead to ask for more, or can you? Emma will have to draw on all her background to solve this mystery. She is on borrowed time and something in the house wants her gone and that doesn't mean packing a bag and leaving. Can she find the answers to remove the curse or will she be the next one claimed by the curse?