When Zoe Bell was young, every summer would bring the promise of spending two weeks in Cape Cod, where she was fascinated and awed by the big, rambling house on Chapin Point. Now, the entrepreneurial Zoe has the money and means to buy Chapin House. But the house already has a resident: a long-suffering entity that has connected with Zoe in a way she never dreamed anyone would in this life, let alone the next. But when a local man is brutally murdered, Zoe is named a suspect - and soon she finds herself searching for the truth about Chapin House's past.