Kate Morgan is helping her best friend, Beth, decorate for her parents’ fiftieth anniversary party at the Storyville Inn, which was formerly the Prescott mansion. While there, they learn the details of the legend surrounding the inn.

In the late eighteen hundreds, Elise Prescott disappeared from her home without a trace. Although there was speculation that her husband murdered her, there was no proof to substantiate the allegations. Now, ninety-five year old Ellen Prescott, Elise’s granddaughter, is obsessed with proving her grandfather’s innocence and clearing her family’s name before she dies.

When Ellen turns up missing and then is found dead in the woods behind the inn, the coroner rules it an accidental death. But her granddaughter, Jennifer, doesn’t believe that’s true. She asks Kate and Beth, who are fascinated with the legend and always eager to solve a mystery, to help her prove that her grandmother was murdered and to find her killer.