When Denise Keating accepts an invitation to her new boyfriend’s family’s annual pre-Christmas dinner in their South Carolina ancestral plantation home, she has no idea the home’s spectral inhabitants will awaken — and fixate on her. What begins as a holiday gathering soon unravels into chaos as the family’s fractured dynamics come to light.
The drama follows the family to Brookgreen Gardens’ dazzling holiday light show — and to a murder that transforms dysfunction into full-blown horror. Caught in the aftermath, Denise becomes a key figure in the investigation. But she’s not alone. The ghosts who haunt Wellington Manor have been waiting for this reckoning — and hold the secrets needed to uncover the truth.