Karen White is een New York Times en USA Today bestseller-auteur, wiens romans meer dan 1,8 miljoen keer zijn verkocht in acht talen. Haar werk, vaak omschreven als "grit lit", combineert meesterlijk familiedrama, mysterie, intrige en romantiek. Met diepe zuidelijke wortels die veel van haar settings beïnvloeden, boeit White lezers met ingewikkelde plots en meeslepende personages. Haar unieke stem en boeiende vertelstijl maken haar een onderscheidende verschijning in de hedendaagse fictie.
Despite her stroke of luck, Melanie cant deny that spiritsboth malevolent and benignhave started to show themselves to her again. One is shrouded from sight, but appears whenever Jayne is near. Another arrives when an old cistern is discovered in Melanies backyard on Tradd Street.
Melanie, a successful realtor, is an ambitious careerist, inaccessible to men, who has a difficult relationship with her father. She has the ability to see beings from a parallel world, but denies it all the time. She is not interested in old houses that keep stories. But she had no idea that she would inherit one from a client she had only seen once. According to his will, the house on Tradd Street, complete with antiques, a dog and the ghosts of its former owners, now belongs to Melanie. However, there is an unusual condition: in order to inherit the property, a woman must restore it and live there for a year. And two men appear in the heroine's life, competing for her affection. The world is becoming more and more upside down. The tangle of past events unravels, revealing all the secrets of the house: the history of two families, love, hidden treasures, and even more, murder.