The heroine of this novel about love, death and grief is a woman who has just ended one chapter of her life. Brynn Wilder, who teaches contemporary American literature at the University, resorts to Wharton, a popular town on the shore of Lake between the US and Canada, to relax and gain strength.

In a cozy hotel, she makes friends with several peculiar people - Luann, eccentric owner, severely ill Alice, who takes care of a double couple with an unusual story, or with Dominic, a young man with a smile of a film star and fascinating tattoos all over his body. >
Brynn, however, will soon feel firsthand that in this house with a long history, something mysterious, perhaps even scary. Alice unexplained knows about all other things that she had no place to learn about. The evil dreams and whispering voices Brynn will reach the room, which the owner leaves for the season after he died there in her hotel, all winter, some unknown, someone unknown died. The main character is also irresistibly attracted by the tattooed Dominic, although she was warned that his death was going on his heels.

Brynn's girlfriend Kate, whose story told the bestseller of the daughter of the lake, found happiness, great work and love of life on the shore of the Hořeje Lake. But what fate has prepared for Brynn?