As a child, she used her dreams of a courageous imaginary friend to escape a harsh upbringing. Years later, she has become a rising romance novelist, and finally leaves her foreboding South Carolina home to lead a more fulfilling life. But her imaginary friend returns, bringing a sinister presence bent on destruction. Reality and dreams become blurred and tenuously intertwined as the novelist strives to find the secret in her past which can save her imaginary friend, as well as her own soul....