Raeliana Ackerman strikes an unusual bargain with John Claude Wainwright, the master of Ashmoure Castle. Hired to teach his younger brother to speak, she must first win Claude's trust which she is determined to succeed. Curiousity will drag her to find out the secrets that Ashmoure keeps. A woman, Angela Rosenthal, who used to take care both of the brothers, Claude and Noah, mysteriously vanished with a chilling rumour that she was murdered and the murderer is among the people inside Ashmoure Castle...