andie miller is ready to move on in life she wants to marry her fianc and leave behind everything in her past especially her exhusband north archer but when andie tries to gain closure with him he asks one final favor of her before they go their separate ways forever a very distant cousin of his has died and left north as the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already and things are getting worse he needs a very special person to take care of the situation and he knows andie can handle anything when andie meets the two children she quickly realizes things are much worse than she feared the place is a mess the children carter and alice arent your average delinquents and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since mrs danvers whats worse andies fianc thinks this is all a plan by north to get andie back and he may be right andies dreams have been haunted by north since she arrived at the old house and thats not the only haunting what follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism including a selfdoubting parapsychologist an annoyed medium her tarotcard reading mother an avenging exmotherinlaw and of course her jealous fianc and just when she thinks things couldnt get more complicated north shows up on the doorstep making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them if andie can just get rid of all the guests and ghosts shes pretty sure she can save the kids and herself from the past but fate might just have another thing in mind