Christopher Meade is a lawyer from a family of lawyers. He leads a well-structured life and is never impulsive or impetuous. Until the ghost of an ancestor begins to haunt him. Suddenly, he is late for appointments, walking out on clients. He becomes obsessed with learning more about his ancestral home in Scotland. Without warning, he drops his legal cases into the hands of his staff and flies across the pond to the U.K. But what is he expected to find? What secrets will he uncover? How can he put to rest the wailing ghost who walks the Scottish moors?