Greg Sherman just wants to get home in time to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with his family, but when the weather turns bad, he decides to stop for the night at the nearest roadside motel he can find. What happens next makes him wish he had just kept driving on through the night.
From the first, Greg thinks the desk clerk is as quirky as the over-done Civil War-era motif dominating the lobby's decor. But things get stranger when the clerk tells him about the motel's most famous guest, a mid-nineteenth-century ghost named Jasmine who haunts the rooms of the Robert E. Lee, as she waits for her man to come home from the war.