Something is waiting. Down where the screams are. The cavernous Victorian Italianate mansion owned by the old woman is surrounded by twisted pine trees with enormous trunks, and the secrets within the house are as murky as the forest. Yet the old woman knows just who the house needs…who she needs to help her clean the house and get it ready for sale. Sybil Alderan's cleaning company has taken a monetary hit, and the contract to clean the old woman's house is a godsend. Sybil and the other women in her crew arrive at the mansion excited by a big paycheck. Yet they are startled about the strange things that happen the minute they arrive. Sybil senses the estate and the massive trees around it are steeped in a terrible history that she tries to ignore. With Sybil's mediumship and psychic abilities, she has always recognized the darker parts of life both natural and unnatural. Always in the background are her own traumas, and an ugly secret hidden in her family that has haunted her since childhood. Even the chance at new love can't remove her feelings that something awful lives within the bones of the house. The house fathoms too well how to dig into Sybil's flesh, into her mind, and remind her of who she was and who she might become. Soon, along with the other women, Sybil finds herself in an epic battle to save her sanity and her life.