Returning to North Carolina after three decades, Leslie Nichols confronts the ghosts of her past at her family's old tobacco plantation, now under her ownership. Her intention to sell Peak Plantation is complicated by its caretaker, Jay Davenport, who is bound to the land through a legacy from Leslie's grandmother. As Leslie grapples with her childhood traumas, she stumbles upon a cryptic grave that unravels the mystery of Adele Laveau, a lady's maid whose puzzling death in the 1930s has been shrouded in secrecy. Together, Leslie and Jay unearth ancestral secrets that reach far into Leslie's lineage, revealing truths that are destined to change her life irrevocably.