The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

When Lacy Woods arrives at Blackwell Hall, she steps into a world of whispers, secrets, and shadows that refuse to stay buried. Bound by bloodlines and haunted by a past no one dares to speak of, she must uncover the truth before silence consumes her completely.