No one in Mill Pond will talk about what happened at the Lakeside Inn at the tenth reunion of the class of 'fifty-one. But—when Jaime Reid finds an old diary that foretells the massacre that took place there, she is caught up in a web of psychic intrigue.

New acquaintances are eerily familiar to her, as is the town itself. Jaime begins to believe that reincarnation is not just a way-out theory, but a real possibility, and that she and her former classmates have "come back" to prevent the same thing from happening all over again.