Now that Meg Corey?s apples have been harvested and sold, she?s enjoying some free time. Especially since she?s snowed in without power or heat. Luckily her maybe-boyfriend Seth is keeping her company, and agrees to help her clean out the house. In a dusty corner Meg finds an early 19th-century silk sampler embroidered with apple trees, with names she doesn?t recognize. Then Meg starts being plagued by a series of increasingly serious mishaps.