Evelyn is a real estate agent, and her listings are haunted by a sinister presence. The evil extends beyond the houses and threatens to destroy her town.

Welcome to Baneford, a small, low-income town in New England, but a century ago, it was the seat of a thriving industrial center with flourishing mills and tanneries. Three hundred years before that, it was an early colonial settlement for pilgrims in the New World.

Today, townspeople experience strange things at night-visceral terrors-that defy logic and explanation. Some have gone mad. Others sense death is around the corner and want to leave. Evelyn is willing to do what she can, but she needs the help of a medium, or necromancer.

Adrian is capable of communing with the dead-in Romania, a Vrăjitor. He's come from afar and offers his help freely because he's seen Evelyn in his dreams.

Summoning Baneford's ghost together, they find he is more powerful and more heinous than they could have imagined. To survive the present and win, they'll have to understand the origin of his evil, and dig up true horrors from the past.