Kathleen Manning a nurse is a very independent modern young lady.This story takes place at the northern most part of Maine where rocky cliffs are on one side of the road and ocean on the other with the Gaylord Van Houghton mansion up high on the moor with Grandmother Martha's cottage at the bottom of the moor. Kathleen Manning comes from Philadelphia to visit her very ill grandmother and that my friends is where the mystery begins. It is believed that the Gaylord mansion is haunted. Is it? You will have to wait and see.