When Heaven d'Argent, who has just lost her family in a car crash discovers that the estate is entailed. Distraught, she flees to a cottage in Cornwall. Three ghosts go with her. Emma her new neighbour, has two children in hospital. Her efforts to help them lead to new friends including Geoffrey, but one resident glares at her and will not speak. Eventually she finds that he and his wife had been renting her cottage from her father, but had been summarily dispossesed to make room for her. This is so unlike her father that she knows that there had been a very suspicious manipulation of the family's affairs. Was the accident no accident but a dreadful crime.......