After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancee Stacy's mysterious suicide. So when he discovers a photo of a house stuck between the pages of one of her paperbacks - dated the day before her death and bearing the cryptic message, "Ours again. Together forever. See you there" - Jace becomes obsessed with the possibility of understanding her death. Seeking out the property, a big brick fortress in Margate, England, he buys it - only to find that the house is haunted by Ann Stuart, a headstrong and feisty ghost he must contend with if he wants to solve the mystery. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent who is worn out by what she's seen in the world, Jace is finally forced to come to terms with his fiancee's life and her untimely death.