Issy Watson moves with her family to Charlotte. She loves their new home called Oakley Plantation, especially when she finds old love letters dated back to the Civil War. Unfortunately, she has only one side of them-letters from Lt. Stanton Winston Pipers. Little does she know that across the state, a young man named Trevor Whitfield finds the other half-letters from Constantine Oakley. They both research the couple and find lots of history of the old plantation-and some not so good. In the meantime, Sheriff Carlton Adams is trying to solve all the cold cases before he retires. Three murders are left; all were in the late 1800s, and all involve the Oakleys. Fate intertwines their lives and research. When all seems to come to a dead end, a century year old lady named Mable Carter helps. However, her help unveils a curse and the spirits. Can Issy, Trevor and the Sheriff solve the case? Can they undo the curse?