"Land has memory," Dr. Mullen tells his old friend, artist Grace Tyne. She learns the truth of those words when she inherits her godmother's home. The house and the grounds are holding on to one memory in particular: the alleged suicide of a young woman there a few years earlier. The otherworldly happenings that follow lead Grace to question many things...including the wisdom of taking on a place that is already possessed.

Drawn into the mystery surrounding the girl's death, Grace receives unexpected help from two kindred souls -- an elderly neighbor and Moonlight, a telepathic Abyssinian cat. Through them, she learns that the world is indeed full of magic, not all of it good, and that ghosts may take many shapes. And that this inherited place of memories may still have the capacity to forget....