What if a single moment could rewrite your fate?

Emma Duque only wanted to surprise her parents with a quick visit to Long Island. Instead, a violent shove on the train platform leaves her dazed, concussed—and with troubling gaps in her memory.

What is real or only an illusion?

Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects that levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant who disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance.

Is it real? Can the audience believe what they see?

A haunted soul, a broken heart, and an ancient castle that takes care of its own…

In a mysterious castle in Oxfordshire, in a bedchamber above stairs lays Sylvie Bentham, the Countess of Trevelyan, deceased of a fever at the tender age of twenty-three.

Or is she?