Hope Ferretti is a girl with seemingly everything going for her. She is among Mystic Island High School’s most popular. She’s caught the eye of football star Joel Fitch. She has the respect of peers and teachers, as well as the support of a loving family. She seems want for nothing more. That is until William Knight begins showing up in her dreams. William is the mysterious “new kid” at Mystic Island High School. Could he really be the kid involved in one of the island’s most notorious crimes so many years ago? And has he really returned to live in the house where his parents met their grizzly deaths? In Hope's dreams, William brings to life her most cherished childhood fantasies and even resurrects the one thing she wants more than anything else. In her waking life, William has become ingrained in her subconscious, like an earworm—a song melody one just can’t shake from his or her thoughts—and Hope begins to wonder: is it possible that William can somehow be causing these dreams?

Whether known as The Captain’s Quarters or The Dutch Horse Pub, you’ll always find interesting people at the local watering hole. From a repentant Vet to a woman hoping that her forty-year search will bring back more than just her engagement ring, or even Satan herself, come by for a drink; and remember to say hi to Fred at the end of the bar.

Welcome to the Black Rock Villas, where countless secrets are only an apartment away. Like a nonverbal autistic child witnessing a murder and needing to find a way to reveal what he knows. Or Cooper, a high school student dealing with the confused loneliness of adolescence and his mom’s cold detachment from her past. Stop by for a visit, but try to keep the volume down, some of the tenants don’t react well to incessant noise.

Parson’t Woods holds one of the island’s most frightening secrets. People go in, but don’t always come out. If you’ve reached the house in its depths, it may be too late.

Phineas Wilkes is Mystic Island's own adventurer--from spending a night in Parson's Woods to knocking on the doorway to Hell in Saint Sebastian's Church, there isn't a challenge he won't take. Now he faces down the island's most famous haunted house. Will he find its hidden treasure, or face its lurking secret?