David Randall's family life collapsed when his little daughter Lindsey died in a car crash. Thrown out by his second wife, he reluctantly accepts his psychic friend Camden's invitation to stay at Camden's boarding house in Parkland, NC. Meanwhile, investigating the murder of Albert Bennett, Randall's only clue is a notebook filled with odd musical notation. When another client hires him to prove that her great-grandmother was murdered by composer John Burrows Ashford, Randall suspects a connection to Bennett's murder, as well as to the murder of a director who was preparing a documentary on early American music. Then Ashford's spirit parks itself in Cam and refuses to leave until Randall proves Ashford's innocence,