Having been accused of her cheating husband's murder and hoping to grab some much needed R & R, Jordan Marsh settles into the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham, Washington, and immerses herself in the restoration of the charming Victorian she'd just bought. But this old house comes fully furnished--with two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own they'd like her to look into--a cold case circa 1890 whose solution might just clear a wrongly accused man's name--and her own.