Follow grad student Heather Conrad into a forgotten past as her house-sitting venture goes awry. Last minute changes leave Heather in charge of her former bossβs lakeside Victorian mansion and six-year-old daughter. But the surprises have just begun. Soon startling discoveries convince Heather that something just isnβt right around the house. When she stumbles on a hidden stairway, the past juts into the presentβaltering the course of Heatherβs own future.