Val Jones has a promising legal career, but a sketching holiday in the historic former goldrush town of Whelan in the Australian bush sets her on a different path. She has the gift of seeing the ghosts from the town’s glory days, and the local gallery owner persuades her that those visions will help her create saleable art for the visiting tourists.

It looks as if Val’s long-buried dream of being a professional artist will come true, especially when a group of powerful women who share her talent for seeing the town’s ghosts are ready to befriend her and share their secrets.

However, as Val digs deeper into the mysteries of Whelan, she discovers the town hides a dark and cruel past, and she is faced with balancing loyalty to her new friends against the need to speak the truth.

Getting it wrong could cost Val more than her artistic career. It could mean losing her soul.