Her father’s death didn’t seem suspicious.

Yet Maggie Arnold can’t deny that there’s something odd about the old Victorian house he was working on when he died. The house that Maggie has now inherited. All she wants is to finish the renovations, sell the house and leave Holyoake, Iowa — but that’s easier said than done.

The handyman and the mystery

The only handyman in town who steps up to help her is Gideon Bromley – a man no one in Holyoake wants to trust. And just beyond every corner hides the person determined to keep them both away from the house for good.