"There is something on the third floor of The Dismals."
The Dismals is a white-columned plantation house with a history of causing great suffering to a great number of people.
A recent college graduate is house-sitting at The Dismals. Unaware of its history, she just wants a few weeks of quiet and solitude so she can write her first novel.
But the Dismals is not quiet, not ever, and no one is ever really alone within its walls.