Getting out from under the past is never easy in an isolated town. Especially not when your last name is 'Blackwood'-the same one that's been attached to every business deal and eviction notice for centuries. When the current heads of the family fled Southbend in the wake of a scandal-the untimely death of their youngest child-the residents breathed a sigh of relief. With the ancestral estate abandoned, they hoped to never see a Blackwood again.

But when the surviving eldest daughter returns five years later, seeking the help of a local witch, the family legacy claws back to the light. Exhausted and haunted, she asks a question everyone's been avoiding: What do you know about how Ida died?