After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy'smysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death. While flipping throughone of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house stuck between thepages, bearing the cryptic message, "Ours again. Together forever. See you there." The note was dated the day before her death. Obsessed by the possibilityof understanding Stacy's suicide, Jace seeks out the property - Priory House, abig brick fortress in Margate, England - and buys it.

It doesn't take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong andfeisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he's ever to solve themystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, andhe has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his owninvestigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is forced to reconcile hisfiancée's life and her death. What follows is a satisfying and seductive discovery of both time and love by one of America's favorite storytellers.