Thus with a kiss, you die....

Elysium is a mysterious estate of beauty and grace. Exquisite antiquities are not the only amenities awaiting visitors. Life there is murder.
Melanie Smallwood has always loved the old estate. She is shocked when an unexpected windfall eliminates all that was familiar. She purchases the antebellum house to restore it.

Strange incidents begin as soon as she moves in. The realtor is the first to suffer a strange affliction. Everyone who visits begins to suffer the symptoms of an ancient plague that annihilated the region a century earlier. The pestilence isn't just a dormant virus, it's a supernatural contagion hell-bent on spreading.
The gardens are not peaceful, the home is not stately, and the estate's spirit is rotten. She must end the evil or everyone who visits will suffer the same agonizing fate.