Rebecca Hall, a lovely young nurse from Louisiana, travels with her family to a thriving riverboat town on the Ohio River in the late 1800's and eventually married Charles Thain. Rebecca happiness is short-lived as things quickly deteriorate and her marriage ends in tragedy, digging up the nightmare that has haunted her since her early days in Louisiana. Rebecca finds herself embroiled in circumstance beyond her knowledge of nursing when she becomes the victim of a series of attacks. Could the curse of the notorious voodoo witch, Grandma Phoebe be to blame? Her journey is a tangle of lies and deceit through which she struggles to separate the truth from the façade.