Raised in a decaying old Pennsylvania mansion and home schooled by their tyrannical professor father, Josie and Jack Raeburn have never had anyone but each other to depend on. Set in the 1990s.

When a fifteen-year-old is savagely beaten up by high school bullies, his intense yearning for revenge unintentionally summons up evil supernatural forces offering to scare his despised enemies to actual death.

After returning to his hometown for his mother's funeral, an attorney stays to defend his estranged father — a retired judge — against a murder charge.