Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester familys vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passage, leading to a room where a skeleton is found, clutching an old copy of The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.