When Bill Braden and his family inherit his grandfather's old house, they discover that riddles and mystery come with the home. Who is the unknown man in the picture above the desk that won't open? Why was a gold coin hidden in a model train? Does a ghost inhabit his sister's room? What is the importance of the unfinished journal of a Civil War soldier? Who is the girl in the picture inside a 100-year-old locket, and why does the girl living next door a century later have an identical locket with a picture of Bill's ancestor? Who are these faces in the frames?
Follow two stories set in the same family 100 years aoart as two young men face desparate struggles-one to survive the bloodbath of the Civil War and the other to comprehend the tragedy of a terrible autumn day in 1963.