Alyssa Carlton is a young lawyer waiting for her first big case to come along, when she is invited by a work colleague, Emma Tylor, to visit LEAL, an eighteenth-century mansion in Homebush. Something keeps drawing Alyssa back to the old house.
When two members of Emma's family die in mysterious circumstances. Alyssa is the only person to support Emma.
Joe Rookas, Alyssa's detective boyfriend is working the two cases and advises Alyssa to stay away from LEAL and Emma.
A friend of Alyssa's, Daniel Meagher, is left money by one of the deceased and Joe starts to look at Daniel as a suspect for murder.