"Sybil and Blake Gergory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life-- she is a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments-- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistably underpriced Pacific Heights mansion as their new home."--Container.

Leaving their well-ordered Manhattan life to move to San Francisco triggers a collision between the past and present for a successful married couple who, during a small earthquake, experience visions of their new home's original inhabitants from a century earlier.

Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life -- she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments -- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. The past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion filled with tender memories and haunting portraits when an earthquake shocks them the night they arrive. The original inhabitants appear for a few brief minutes. In the ensuing days, the Gregorys meet the large and lively family who lived there a century ago: distinguished Bertrand Butterfield and his gracious wife Gwyneth, their sons Josiah and little Magnus, daughters Bettina and Lucy, formidable Scottish matriarch Augu

What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that doesn't keep the two families from leading a charmed life together.

"Izvestnyĭ dizaĭner po interʹeram Sibilla Gregori i ee muzh, investor Bleĭk -- schastlivai͡a para, prozhivshai͡a vmeste mnogo let. U nikh podrastai͡ut troe deteĭ, i druzhnoĭ semʹe ne khvataet lishʹ odnogo - bolʹshogo doma. Poėtomu predlozhenie kupitʹ po deshevke prekrasnyĭ starinnyĭ osobni͡ak kazhetsi͡a podarkom sudʹby. Odnako besplatnyĭ syr byvaet tolʹko v myshelovke -- i suprugam Gregori predstoit ubeditʹsi͡a v pravote ėtoĭ poslovit͡sy. Vskore vyi͡asni͡aetsi͡a: ikh dom khranit taĭnu. I taĭna ėta takova, chto voploshchenie mechty mozhet okazatʹsi͡a koshmarom nai͡avu"--