Tess Maher's sister and best friend drag her to a seance in Nashville. much to Tess' annoyance. Tess keeps complaining she doesn't need a Ouija board to see the deceased. In the course of the evening, shades show up and Tess begins to relax and watch other people communicate with the dead. Until one spirit shows up to inform his ex-wife that he didn't die of natural causes, and informs the room Tess could be of help. The ex-wife hires Tess, who is a private investigator, to ferret out the truth. Tess loves her job, possibly because she is naturally nosy. However, her newest case may be the one which causes her to change professions, if she survives. Tess is thrown headlong into convoluted family dynamics and a feud which threatens to blow up in her face. This is one hot case, with murder, arson, deep seeded family hatred, money and lots of it, jealousy, danger, and of course dead people who keep showing up.
