Their latest assignment takes the Ghost Finders of the Carnaki Institute to a small country village, site of a famously haunted inn. At first, JC thinks that the spirits in the King's Arm Inn are more the stuff of folk tales and legend than anything that needs the Ghost Finder's expertise. Then they are shown to their rooms and the inn shows its true face to JC, Melody and Happy, and it isn't pretty. Trapped by an unusual thunderstorm the team investigates, and they are forced, one by one, to face some hard truths about themselves, their relationships and the haunting itself- truths that may force Happy Jack Palmer over the edge and into the madness he has always feared...