Este Daly leads a simple life in a simple town with her dad, brother, and several friends. She enjoys things a normal girl would: writing, reading books, and drawing. No one would expect her family history to be cursed and disturbing. An immortal, Leo Dorrance, has loved and known women from three generations of her family, poisoning their minds into falling in love with him. As a result, he murdered them, starting with her great-grandmother, her grandmother, and then her own mother. Leo comes to Este and pursues her for several years, making her believe she loves him. Then she marries and Leo disappears. Este thinks she is rid of him forever until she discovers a box of letters in his old apartment when she returns to retrieve some of her things. It is a box full of letters written by him and all the women of her family that he murdered. His true nature is revealed, and Este realizes that she is next to be murdered.