Her mother left three years ago and has not been heard
from since.She is at risk of losing her
relationship with her younger sister Tabitha, who suffers from injuries that
Leah blames herself for.Not only has
she lost her family, but her home.After
their father’s unexplained suicide, the girls are sent to live with their
reclusive aunt, Claire, who seems to live as far from civilization as a person
can get.
They are sent to the rickety house.
While
dealing with the idea of her father’s death and her mother’s absence,
tolerating her handicapped sister as well as her despondent aunt, Leah finds
out that there may be more to the old house than she suspected.She begins to find letters and photographs
that tell of the family who used to live in the house, and her interest is
drawn in further when she finds she can communicate with the ghost of a teenage
boy through a window in the attic.In
order to distract herself from her own troubled life, she delves fully into
his, trying to uncover the mystery of his death in the house – but it remains
to be seen how that will affect her own sanity, or if she will lose what little
of her own life she has left.