For Maddie DeMaree the nightmare had only just begun when her fiance' Brae Trahearn pulled up outside the dilapidated French Creole house in Southern Louisiana. What started out as a home improvement project led her down an alley of mystery and intrigue as she tried to discover the secrets of the woman in the large portrait above the fireplace mantel. Meeting colorful characters along the way, Maddie and Brae experience the one and only experience of New Orleans as they learn how their own love could grow stronger despite the past. But will the distant past let them live their lives into the future? Strange things start happening at the house and the couple is taken on a wild ride as the romance from another time bleeds into the current time.