At age thirty, Rose never expected to quit her job, load up her clothes and a 1940's Royal typewriter and head south to an old mansion her grandmother owns. The mansion sits on the banks of the historic Suwannee River in northern Florida, near the sleepy fishing village of Suwanee. Little did she know that the decision could cost her life and her head. When she sets the typewriter down on the desk in the office of the house, the mansion seems to come alive with ghosts and strange happenings. The caretaker Nathan who is about her age and ruggedly handsome is a boat gypsy. He sails the coast in his sailboat, but has decided he likes the seclusion of the old house surrounded by live oaks with Spanish moss trailing to the ground. When he hears that the granddaughter of the woman who owns the house is coming to stay, he worries she will be a rich snob who looks down on him and thinks he is her servant. As the house comes alive with ghosts, voodoo and rooms that are there one minute and not the next, he wonders if maybe he should get in his boat and leave it and the beautiful redhead behind. Rose is out of her element with all the paranormal stuff going on. The voodoo is almost too much for her. Finally Nathan calls upon an old friend, a practitioner of white voodoo that is at least a hundred and twenty years old, for help. Will she be enough to combat the evil that seems to permeate the house?

Fleeing from an abusive boyfriend, Stephanie ends up in the sleepy coastal town of Sargent Texas. With nothing more than the few clothes she was able to get out with, she finds a job at a greasy spoon restaurant, a place to live and new friends. Captain Jack owner operator of the Sea Gypsy tug boat, finds her irresistible but skittish. Can he break through the wall she has built around her? Her life falls into a routine and she finds happiness. All is well until the nightmare from her past shows up, ready to drag her back to Dallas whether she wants to go or not The note in her car said it all: I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE AND WHERE YOU WORK. YOU CAN NOT HIDE. YOU ARE MINE AND ALWAYS WILL BE. I WILL SEE YOU DEAD BEFORE I LET YOU BE WITH SOME CRIPPLED UP OLD MAN. I KNOW HE SPENT THE NIGHT WITH YOU. I AM WATCHING. However, he finds not the timid rabbit she was, but a strong self-sufficient woman. Deciding not to be the victim any more she takes classes in martial arts and applies for a permit to carry gun.

The Facts: (Or are they?) A brutal murder and one justified police shooting took place in 1955. An old haunted southern mansion, sitting on the banks of the historic Suwanee River cannot keep tenants, but it can keep secrets A 1940's typewriter, types by itself and puts off scents of peoples favorite flowers Rose is happy with her job and her life in Cincinnati until her grandmother gives her that typewriter. She tells her the history of it and of the murder of her sister and brother-in-law, so many years before. The machine fascinates her as it greets her with the scent of roses in a garden, not rose water or a perfume, but roses in the early morning, with dew clinging to the petals. Drawn to the mansion by a force she cannot understand, she quits her job, loads her meager belongings and the typewriter into her car and starts on a collision course with Ghosts, Romance and Voodoo.