Her divorce final, Iris Layton wants to break with the past. But another past comes into her life when she finds remnants of an old farmhouse on her new subdivision lot and hears local legends about Hannah Davis, the witch-ghost said to haunt the place. Iris doesn't buy the stories, but she does find Hannah haunting her as she learns more about her unseen neighbor. And it is Hannah from whom Iris draws support when she faces a real-life threat that has nothing to do with ghosts. In her own time Hannah, too, faces a serious threat after a dying girl is left at her door. And Hannah is haunted...