A house full of ghosts is no place to fall in love.

Malcolm Carmichael has been coping with his post-war trauma by taking lovers, teaching art to schoolboys, and trying to ignore the ghosts that follow him everywhere.

Caleb Thibodeaux was so traumatized by the death of his parents that he hasn't spoken a word since the fire that killed them. His uncle Noel hires Malcolm to be his tutor, and Malcolm quickly discovers that Caleb is not the only Thibodeaux son with troubles. The plantation house Fidele is beautiful but haunted, and Noel is much the same.

Soon Malcolm is absorbed in protecting Caleb and Noel from threats both living and dead, and in uncovering the story of Fidele.

Previously published as Fidele by Jenna Lynn Brown