As a child, Kate Stong Smythe drew castles. Now, at thirty-five, she?s found herself

hard-edged and uncompromising, designing slick condos in Griffintown, a gentrified

working-class neighbourhood of Montreal.

When Kate?s mother dies, she calls out five mysterious names from her deathbed, propelling

Kate on a journey to unravel the mysterious dreams she?s had since childhood. She?s met with

a shock when she finds their names in her own family genealogy books, tied to faces sheknows from her strange flashbacks. Who are these women, and why have they haunted her

dreams since she was a little girl?

Kate?s unsettling visions take her from her home in Montreal to an abandoned farmhouse in

the northern suburbs of Toronto, increasingly consumed by her ties to the past and the

ancestral hardness that is holding her hostage.