Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a long way from Hollywood. And that’s just how Cilla McGowan wants it.

Cilla, a past child star, offers found a far more satisfying existence dealing with her hands to restore homes from ground to ceiling – and offers come right here to her grandmother’s farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. Unfortunately, no one have been able to save her grandmother, the famous Janet Hardy. An celebrity having a fantastic voice and a tumultuous about Tribute lifestyle, Janet entertained glamorous guests and involved in decadent affairs – but passed away of an overdose within this extremely house more than thirty years ago. To this day, Janet haunts Cilla’s dreams. And during her waking hours, Cilla is haunted by her melodramatic, five-times-married mother, who carried on in the public spotlight and never gave her an opportunity at a normal childhood. By coming to the East Coastline, rolling up her sleeves, and rehabbing this wreck of a house, Cilla intends to have a shot at locating some kind of normalcy for herself.

Cilla offers her work slice out on her behalf – the house, once a place of comfort and ease and simple rural beauty, is long neglected, crumbling, the lands choked by weeds. Plunging into the project with gusto, she’s nearly too active and exhausted to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer – but his lanky form, green eye, and easy, unflappable laughter (not to mention his delightfully unpleasant puppy, Spock) are hard to disregard. Determined never to carry on the family custom of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford’s quirky attraction, but she can’t help indulging in just a little fantasy.

But love and a peaceful life may possibly not be in the cards for Cilla. In the house’s cluttered attic, she has discovered a cache of unsigned words, tied using a faded crimson ribbon, suggesting that Janet Hardy was pregnant when she passed away – which the daddy of her kid was a local married man. Cilla can’t help but question what really happened all those years ago. The mystery only deepens with some cruel and intimidating works and a terrifying, violent assault. And if Cilla and Ford are unable to sort out who’s targeting her and just why, she may, like her world-famous grandmother, become cut down in the best of her lifestyle.