When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do...but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over 400 years earlier...Returning to Askerby Hall to recuperate, Kate finds herself in a house full of shadows and suspicions, where she struggles to piece together the events that led to her terrible fall.