Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. Therefore when a stranger appears on her doorstep with employment offer, she finds herself agreeing to the mysterious yet unique placement: caretaker to his mom, Amaris Sinclair, the well-known and rather eccentric horror novelist whom Julia offers always adored…and who the world believes is deceased.

When she arrives at the Sinclairs’ enormous property on Lake Superior, Julia begins to suspect that there may be sinister undercurrents to her ‘too-good-to-be-true’ position. As Julia delves into the factors of why Amaris chose to abandon her effective writing career and withdraw from the general public eyes, her search leads to unsettling contacts to her very own family tree, making her wonder why she actually was asked to Havenwood to begin with, and what monstrous secrets remain held prisoner within its walls.