The college professor who rents an old inn for a summer of writing is in for surprises: Nicholas Pim's 'hostess' is a 250 year-old five year old girl. His developing love interest is a flapper who died in the 1920s. The Inn is haunted by several spirits - the Inn itself is part ghost. But perhaps the hardest part is the unwanted temptation of a lively grad student who has homed in on Nicholas as her next - tempted and unwilling - love interest.

This book is a reworking of Chapman's novella 'The Inn of Souls'