Julie Sullivan is a young women's historian who loves her life in Charleston, South Carolina. She has just completed her graduate studies and is a respected member of the local university family. Meriwether MacDonnel was a carefree teenager living in eighteenth century Scotland until she was traded to a total stranger and forced to accompany him to America. A chance visit to a ghostly period tavern binds Julie and Meriwether on a journey as one reaches out to the other from the grave. Allow yourself to be transported from modern day Charleston to the hills of Scotland and back. Number Two Hearn is the story of two women who lived two worlds and two centuries apart, and the house which brought them together.