It is the week before Halloween and Theodosia Browning, proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop, and her tea sommelier, Drayton, are ghosting through the dusk of a cool Charleston evening on their way to the old Bouchard Mansion. During their literary haunted house event, a prominent local author is suddenly thrust from the third floor of the house. Theodosia is enlisted to investigate, leaving no member of the literary and historical communities unquestioned. Can she find the answers by the eve of Halloween?