Orphaned and outspoken, Maud Flynn is stunned when the elegant Miss Hyacinth and her sisters choose to adopt her. But their affection comes with a hidden agenda: Maud is to play a part in their staged sances, posing as a ghostly child to swindle grieving families. At first, Maud is eager to belongbut as the lies grow darker and the performances more unsettling, she begins to question the women she once trusted. Set against the eerie backdrop of early 20th-century spiritualism, this gripping tale follows a bold heroine caught between deception and the courage to do what’s right.