When a wealthy heiress goes missing, her father hires private consulting detectives Val Saxon and Laura Hampstead to search for her. The clues lead them to Maine and a mansion high up on a hill overlooking the sea. The owner is her fiance', a mystic who was the last person to see her alive. But over time the secret of Cranewood Manor goes beyond the dark arts into the realm of murder, and a strange man with a secret of his own helps them to solve the case.