Eddie Wickham had been brought away from his family by his great-aunt Theodora with the promise that she would help him get schooling to overcome his handicap—he could not speak and had not learned to read and write. But Theodora seemed to keep him busy working, chopping wood, feeding the animals, milking the cow. All for no pay and a straw mattress in the top floor of her huge old house. Life would have been very lonely, except for the company of five year-old Katrina that followed him everywhere, and the friendship of sixteen year-old neighbor Angie, who secretly helped him learn to read and write. When Katrina was brutally murdered, Eddie was quickly arrested and charged. Angie was conflicted. Should she come forward and testify that Eddie had been with her when the death had occurred? Eddie had learned dark secrets about his Aunt Theodora, but she was highly respected for taking in young children that needed help. Shortly after the trial, Eddie and Angie disappeared. Perhaps they had run away together?
Decades later, realtor Katie Rogers is trying to overcome her grief over the death of her young husband, and decides to buy the old Wickham mansion. She soon learns that the reason the property has been for sale for so long is that prospective buyers left after spending just a few nights in the house. Due to her sister Nancy’s urgency to find a home where her children Erica and Curtis are not so cooped up, Katie and Nancy resolve to move into the house before they can get it wired for electricity! Candles will have to suffice. It is not long before Katie faces a ghost in the house, and this ghost can actually open doors and pick up objects such as the long butcher knife. Also, Katie begins to have visions that involve the house and seem very detailed, very realistic. She is so shaken that she begins to see a psychiatrist …
