Samantha “Sam” and Jayanth “Jay” Arondekar, a young married couple living in a cramped New York City apartment, inherit Woodstone Manor, an old Upstate mansion, from Sophie Brimble, Sam’s great aunt.
However, the house is inhabited by ghosts from different eras of American history who died on the property, are invisible and intangible to the living, can phase through walls but not floors or ceilings, cannot eat or drink but require sleep, and possess individual powers related to either their lives or their deaths.
Learning that Sam and Jay plan to open a bed and breakfast, the ghosts struggle to haunt them out of the house, fearing constant disturbance and risk of being walked through by the living, a deeply painful experience for ghosts. Party-loving stockbroker Trevor, the most recently deceased ghost who can interact with the corporeal world to a limited degree, accidentally causes Sam to trip over a vase he moves and fall down the stairs.
At the hospital, she is placed under an induced coma that leaves her briefly clinically dead. Two weeks later, she revives with the ability to see, hear, and interact with the ghosts.
