They say Blackmere’s mansion doesn’t just remember its dead—it collects them.

It’s March 2020, and Mary Fisher has spent forty years running from something she isn’t even sure exists. Two failed marriages and a lifetime of emotional wreckage trail behind her, yet she still wakes in the grip of night terrors—visions from childhood that grow sharper, darker, and harder to ignore.

Her best friend and counsellor, Tamara Bowen, believes the key to moving forward lies in facing the past—specifically, the night when five-year-old Mary witnessed something on a frozen gravel road that left an unshakable imprint on her soul.

When word spreads that a reporter is coming to town to dig into the unsolved hitchhiker murders, Mary decides to take control of the narrative. She seeks out the one person she believes holds the answers, unaware that this single choice will set events in motion she can no longer stop.

A strange inheritance soon draws her back to a decaying Victorian mansion in the shadowed town of Blackmere—a place steeped in whispered legend, where the air hums with secrets and the walls murmur with ghosts. Some are hers. Some belong to others. And one, with eyes like blue fire, watches from the corners of her dreams.

As forgotten crimes resurface and echoes rise from beneath the floorboards, Mary must confront the truth she’s been running from all her life. What is real? What is imagined? And what has been watching for her just beyond the veil?

Some truths can only be seen in silence. Some gifts come at a cost. And some awakenings…were never meant to happen.