Recently discharged from a psychiatric facility where he was treated for depression, Tate is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvias deathbed revelationthat she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. When he takes up residence at a historic former bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he hasabout his logical world. Tate and Wren forge an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wrens small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom. In order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out.