In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel’s caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it’s haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby—who has the gift of extrasensory perception—to check it out.
While Ruby is ghost-hunting, China Bayles walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. A half hour before she is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs bank is robbed and a teller is shot and fatelly shot.
Before she can discover the identity of the killers, China must go to the Blackwood house to discuss urgent business with Ruby. And as she is drawn into the mystery of the haunted house, China opens the door on some very real danger…
