In the Appalachian Mountains a gentle ghost beckons the reluctant dead to the other side of the French Broad River . . . on the South Carolina coast bewildered spirits await passage across a foggy Charleston harbor . . . in the Shenandoah hills the ghost of laundry hangs white and flowing against a black storm cloud . . . in the north Georgia mountains a mysterious face smiles beneath the surface of a pond . . . in a New Orleans curio shop an antique wooden mannequin is consumed with love for the shopkeeper . . . and on a windswept North Carolina beach a vengeful spirit swims against the tide in pursuit of the woman who wounded his lost soul long, long ago . . . .

Journey with award-winning author Sherry Austin to the brooding, soulful American South where kudzu-covered hills hide dark family secrets, where under the soil of mountainside graveyards souls rest uneasily, where old plantations are still haunted by a lost cause, and where on a moonlit coastal back road a phantom hitchhiker still walks . . . .