When Kathryn inherits Charon's Crossing, her first instinct is to sell it. A busy career woman didn't need a tropical island getaway. But destiny brings Kathryn to Charon's Crossing, and she hears the cry of a love lost. He is 19th-century sea captain Matthew McDowell. Betrayed by the woman he loved, doomed to walk these halls, he waits for the one woman who can set him free.