[1] The story of Peggy Grahame, and how she is forced to relocate to her uncle's estate when she is orphaned.

When seventeen-year-old Peggy Grahame's father dies, she has no choice but to reside in the home of her only remaining relative, her uncle Enos.

While Peggy strikes up a tentative friendship with a young British man called Pat, who is doing some research in America, her uncle is quick to forbid the two from seeing each other.

Peggy is forced to spend much of her time alone in the large, Colonial house, and soon discovers it to be haunted by the ghosts of her eighteenth-century ancestors and their contemporaries.

With the help of the ghosts' stories, Peggy is able to unravel a centuries-old family mystery, win the affection of her uncle and find a romance of her own.