Twenty-five years ago Maggie Holt and her parents moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night an ordeal her father later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. Now Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. When she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale people from the pages of her father's book lurk in the shadows and locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. As the days pass Maggie begins to believe that what her father wrote was more fact than fiction.