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Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, in the darkness from the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a long way from Hollywood. And that’s exactly how Cilla McGowan prefers it.

Cilla, a former child star, has found a more satisfying life working with her hands to restore homes from floor to ceiling – and offers come here to her grandmother’s farmhouse, equipment at her aspect, to rescue it all from ruin. Sadly, no one had been able to save her grandmother, the legendary Janet Hardy. An celebrity using a golden tone of voice and a tumultuous about Tribute lifestyle, Janet entertained gorgeous guests and engaged in decadent affairs – but passed away of the overdose within this extremely house more than thirty years ago. To this day, Janet haunts Cilla’s dreams. And during her waking hours, Cilla is certainly haunted by her melodramatic, five-times-married mom, who continued in the general public spotlight rather than gave her an opportunity at a standard childhood. By coming to the East Coastline, moving up her sleeves, and rehabbing this wreck of a residence, Cilla intends to have a shot at acquiring some type of normalcy for herself.

Cilla offers her work lower out for her – the house, once a place of ease and comfort and basic rural beauty, is long neglected, crumbling, the lands choked by weeds. Plunging in to the project with gusto, she’s nearly too active and exhausted to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer – but his lanky form, green eye, and easy, unflappable laughter (not forgetting his delightfully unsightly pup, Spock) are hard to disregard. Determined never to keep on the family members custom of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford’s quirky charm, but she can’t help indulging in a little fantasy.

But love and a peaceful life may not be in the cards for Cilla. In the house’s cluttered attic, she’s discovered a cache of unsigned words, tied with a faded red ribbon, suggesting that Janet Hardy was pregnant when she passed away – and that the father of her kid was a local married guy. Cilla can’t help but question what really occurred all those years back. The mystery just deepens with a series of cruel and intimidating works and a frightening, violent assault. And if Cilla and Ford are unable to sort out who’s targeting her and why, she may, like her world-famous grandmother, end up being decrease in the best of her lifestyle.