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 bossEUR(TM)s lakeside Victorian mansion and six-year-old daughter. But the surprises have just begun. Soon startling discoveries convince Heather that something just isnEUR(TM)t right around the house. . . . When she stumbles on a hidden stairway, the past juts into the presentEUR"altering the course of HeatherEUR(TM)s own future.