Annie Dawson's recurring nightmare haunts her, as does the mystery of the rag doll she finds in the attic of her home.The little doll, accented with the childish embroidery of a small bird on its tiny apron becomes the focus of a mystery unraveling in the small coastal town of Stony Point, Maine.

Maggie Watson thought she would spend the rest of her life in Vermont, living in the picturesque cottage home where she'd raised her family. But after her husband's death three years ago and her daughter's recent departure for college, the empty nester knew it was time to start a new chapter in her life. That chapter begins unexpectedly when Maggie inherits her aunt's nineteenth-century Colonial Revival, Sedgwick Manor, and the adjacent Carriage House...