When a fire throws the mayoras office into chaos, he moves his employees to an old house that is destined for the burn pile in the spring. While the offices in town are being reconstructed, the house decides it is time to reveal the townas local history. Annie and Mirandaas employment brings them into contact with the mayoras workforce. Soon, the women are deciding if friendships are caused by chance meetings or destiny, especially when a nighttime encounter with a ghostly family reveals unknown secrets to the women. Why were they chosen to understand the meaning of all of the Blue Stars in Lakeside? How could a circus, the Underground Railroad, and the Roaring Twenties have anything to do with life in their quiet little town today? These questions were all answerable within the fabric of time, and Annie and Miranda were ready to step through that tear to seek the truth and change their town. But who would believe in ghosts?