When Alison Simons, a successful author, purchases her family's old home in the north of England, it's a dream come true … until she discovers she can no longer write and finds her husband is never home. She purchases an oil painting of a hunting scene that strangely fascinates her, and only then do ideas for a story begin to curl through her mind. After three years of silence, the doorway to her imagination opens. As she researches the painting and its artist, John Trentham, she discovers its eerie connection to her home, to herself, and to her family. To her horror, the doorway, now open, refuses to close.