Archaeologist Emma Fielding is hired to consult on the purchase of a estate that local legend says is cursed. However she finds herself after discovering the body of this archaeologist she was hired to darkness at a room in the bowels of the construction. Assisted by her buddy, FBI agent Jim Conner, Fielding must sift through hints and also a very lengthy list of suspects, each of whom has their own motive for wanting the individual dead, to pinpoint who is the killer.