Samantha Wardlaw can talk to ghosts. Really. Until her fiance committed suicide, she used this remarkable gift to create historical biographies. However, after the death of her lover, she is left bereft of her psychic abilities and literary ambitions. Depressed, Samantha retreats deep into the North Carolina mountains. Despite this, she's forced from her sanctuary to fulfill a publishing contract, and journeys to Charleston, South Carolina. There, she begins the transcription of the diary of a Union Civil War soldier, Josiah Taggart. Almost immediately, he steps from the purgatory of death to...

Willow Winds is one of the two remaining pre-revolutionary plantations still standing on the Ashley River outside of Charleston, SC. Its vast acreage is controlled by Wardlaw relatives. Of course its quite haunted, inside and out. That's not too unusual considering its multiple centuries on the spot, but Willow Winds has a unique manifestation of the supernatural-a Lorelei. The ancient muse has been luring river people into her depths for generations. The Lorelei's body count has started rise and Samantha Wardlaw has journeyed to the plantation to unravel the spirit's secrets and her own....