Rowe Devlin, author of best-selling horror novels, buys an old Victorian house in Maine expecting a tranquil writing environment and an enjoyable home renovation project. What she finds herself caught up in is a mystery more bizarre than anything she's ever written.

T house is haunted and the ghost is none too friendly. To make life even more difficult, her neighbors are a huge distraction. The Temple twins, Phoebe and Cara, are identical and profoundly alluring, and Rowe is soon under their spell, unable to decide which of the two she is more in love with. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, she finds herself embroiled in a mystery more bizarre and frightening than anything she's ever written.