Marianna Edgewater finds a knofe in the furnace room of an abandoned Georgia school building she bought to use as a studio for her interior design buisness. The knofe terrifies her. She hears the voice of a girl murdered on that school grounds over thirty years ago. The voice insiher killer is still at large, but still isnt sure who it was, only that it wasn't the man who was convicted. Marianna begins having accidents as she questions the local people about the long ago murder. When she recieves a letter from the convicted killer, "...I want you to know that I did not kill her and that the person who did must still be around...," she id determined to learn the truth.