Upon her arrival in Shoal Harbor Maine Lily Jackson hears eerie moans that the locals claim are the ghostly cries of the unfortunate Breckenridge women Running from loss and setback in Cincinnati Lily needs the job as semipsychiatric caregiver for Andrew Breckenridge but the storm she has to weather from the oldest Breckenridge brother is severe Clinton Breckenridge is a brooding man used to getting his own way and hes not convinced Lily is the right person to help his troubled younger brother Even as Lily starts picking up the pieces of Andrews tortured psyche and finding out his dark secrets another mystery looms before her Andrews lover has gone missing in recent months and no one knows what has happened to her or if her voice has joined those of the other Breckenridge women Before she knows it Lily finds herself in dangerthrust directly into the eye of the raging storm