For Belle Parsons, hunting down ghosts had become an obsession. She had systematically visited many of the most supposedly haunted houses in America hoping to come face-to-face with one, but without so much as encountering even a frisson. So when she saw an ad for a classic San Franciscan Victorian in which four murders had just taken place, she just had to move her family there. It was ideal: it was a Victorian, it had to be haunted and it was unbelievably cheap to rent. However, she could probably have done without the terror, torment and tragedy that pursued her to her new home. Yes, the house was indeed haunted but there was something else lurking in the shadows, not a ghost exactly, more an entity, and that entity had every intention of killing them all ...