
Clem himself recently lost his wife Grace, and this year might also be his last as the lot property is being redeveloped. For many of the regulars who have bought their trees at the lot over its 30 years, it's an especially painful year. Despite not being a Christmas person since his mother's death when he was a child, Nick accepts without telling Clem anything about his situation. Seeing Nick walk by looking crushed, aging Clem Marshwell, owner of the Star Top Christmas-tree lot, offers him a temporary minimum-wage job assisting with the heavy lifting at the lot. He's hesitant to tell his world-traveling father Sydney, who seems to value financial success more than anything. In the lead-up to Christmas, Chicago investment banker Nick Bellwith is fired for an investment decision he made for his biggest client, which negated all the money he made for them and his company in the past, and he was let go instead of being promoted to junior partner as he was expecting. But the longer they're in the house, the more it appears their lives are in danger.Add full plotPlot synopsis But whatever spirit lingers in the house increases the therapy's intensity, whirling Scarlett into Frank's memories with each therapy session.Travelling through Frank's fragmented memories, Scarlett discovers the source of his pain may be murder!Now Scarlett must unravel a mystery involving Frank and his previous tenants, ANGEL, a girl who enraptured Frank with her beautiful voice, and MATTHEW BRADLEY, her boyfriend whom Frank hated.Did Frank murder them? Would he do the same to Autumn? If she tells her daughter, Scarlett will be kicked out and be completely unable to protect her. Scarlett employs a special form of massage therapy-Cranial Sacral-to find the source of Frank's pain and release it. Is the house haunted or are her medications causing hallucinations? Should Scarlett heed his warnings or is her neighbor crazy?Frank suffers from intense pain in his hands that is taking away his ability to play the piano, which is his passion and livelihood. Scarlett may have to choose between getting kicked out of her daughter's life and saving it as moving into the house leads to a journey of suspense, mystery, spine-tingling discoveries about Frank and the people who have been killed in the house.Scarlett quickly finds horror in her new living arrangement as she starts seeing a ghostly figure and receives a warning from a strange neighbor, QUINTON JONESBORO (32) to get out of the house. Scarlett cannot interfere with Autumn's relationship and find something wrong with Autumn's new boyfriend, as she has a habit of doing. There's one condition to the arrangement. After an injury puts SCARLETT HEALY (35) in a wheelchair, she moves in with her daughter, AUTUMN (19), who just moved into a creepy old house with her boyfriend, FRANK THRUSSEL (30).
