When newspaper reporter Alex Rutherford receives a tip about a murdered family in the Niagara region, she decides to investigate-especially when she learns that her own family might be involved. Accompanied by her best friend, Ginny, and her dog, Spider, they set out to solve the case.While hunting for shallow graves in a country cemetery, the investigators meet a handsome police chief and his sidekick from the St. Catharines Police Department. Romance blooms as they join forces to catch the killer.The mystery deepens as the investigation leads them to an old farmhouse, the disappearances of three men, and a tale of forbidden love that rocks them to the core. Despite getting tangled in these unspeakable crimes, they discover that they'll have no choice but to on front the Ghosts of the Past-once and for all.