Jean Schaefer has suffered from overwhelming anxiety for the past four years due to the death of her parents and an entanglement with her child's father, which ended in a shocking rejection. She contracts for an original settler's house in the woods near Living Spring, hoping to use the renovation process as therapy. She must now learn to live in new ways and to allow people into her life again. As the history of the old house, along with elements of her own past begin to surface, Jean finds herself fighting inner battles she thought she had buried forever.