Joyce Erikson must choose between two lovers: Mack Merritt, the most eligible bachelor in all of Mystic Harbor, and Ethan West, the ghostly inhabitant of an old, dented pocket watch. A lighthouse, an orchard, a high school dance -- Mack and Joyce are about to discover the dark side of love as they unravel the thirty-year-old mystery that left one young girl Waiting for Ethan.