Abandoned by her family and left to tend the ancestral cemetery for ten years, Gabriella Hawthorne's life changes one stormy night when she shelters an unknown, solitary grave. In return, she receives a mystical jade pendant and the protection of Felix Golding, a land spirit. When she learns that the grave belongs to General Harold Blackwood, a wrongly accused martyr of the previous dynasty, she vows to clear his name and sets out on a journey to seek justice.