When a woman inherits an abandoned country estate, she and her husband move in to make it a hotel, but the ghosts who live there have other ideas and try their best to make the couple leave.

Follows libertarian politician Peter Laurence as he pushes on with his career after winning a libel case against a journalist while secrets threaten to disrupt his personal life and career.

When an oraphaned daughter of a Union general moves to Manhattan, she becomes entangled in the social war between her aristocratic aunts and their nouveau-riche neighbors.