When sixteen-year old Joan Wisdom is adopted by her uncle and moves to Halfway, the Wisdom family’s ancestral home, she finds her new family consists of a demanding old-fashioned uncle and an aunt who is rarely around. As she gets to know her Uncle Garret, Joan discovers that he has been cursed, and that she has inherited this curse. As the heart of the new generation of Wisdoms at Halfway, Joan may be able to reject the curse and bing about change for the better.