A restless journalist, while reluctantly fulfilling her beloved

grandmother's dying wish, uncovers a Civil War era mystery of brutally
murdered women in the custody of the Union Army, embroiling her into a
present day murder investigation of similar murders, triggering in her
past life memories, reuniting her with the soul of her long-lost love
and placing her in the path of the soul of a killer, who wants her dead.

SYNOPSIS:

Mary Stark, a journalist, is visited by the spirit of her just deceased

grandmother. Her grandmother starts her on a quest to deliver the locket

of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Green, to the grave of Mary

Green’s first husband, killed in battle during the Civil War.

Mary reluctantly takes on the quest after she begins reading Mary

Green’s diary which describes the capture, deportation to the North, and

the imprisonment of four hundred women and children from the mill town

of Roswell, Georgia during the Civil War.

Several women were viciously murdered during the journey from Roswell to the women’s prison in Louisville, Kentucky.

In present day Atlanta, two women have been brutally murdered, both

women are Army. FBI Special Agent Sam Tyler and Colonel Ely Low, Army

CID are investigating the murders.

Mary flies to Fort McPherson in Atlanta to dig into military history. Mary realizes that

history seems to be repeating itself because Sam and Ely are names from

the Roswell women mystery - Sergeant Ely Polowski and Captain Samuel Lee

of the Union cavalry.

Mary’s connection to Mary Green becomes stronger. She begins to have vivid dreams of the events depicted in the diary. Mary Green and Captain Samuel Tyler begin a relationship while

Ely Polowski’s hatred of Southerners, especially these women, begins to control his actions. Ely becomes a suspect of the first murders, but he is cleared. However, his obsession with Mary Green grows.

Mary Stark and Sam Tyler connect and begin to spend time together. Mary tells Sam of the Roswell women mystery, including the brutal murders. Sam tells her about the Atlanta murders. Mary suggests that maybe souls do travel in groups, reconnecting in time. Sam thinks it’s someone that has knowledge of the ontents of the diary or a similar journal.

Colonel Low becomes obsessed with Mary Stark and her investigation after he realizes that his ancestor, Sergeant Ely Polowski, is involved in the mystery. Mary politely declines a dinner invitation from Ely and in

his anger, becomes an obstacle to Mary’s investigation.

Mary, in the grips of a powerful dream, wakes with a plan to go to Louisville to continue following the diary’s events. Sam gets a break in his case that sends him to Louisville on the trail of Dr. Stephens, an OB-GYN. Colonel Ely Low deciding to put to a stop to Mary’s digging up the past follows her to Louisville.

Mary and Samuel have fallen in love, even during the harsh realities of the war. There have been no murders in Louisville, only escalating harassment by Ely to the imprisoned women.

Mary Stark has a dream about the murderer of the Roswell women, even before she reads it in the diary. Doc Withers, a physician attached to the Union cavalry is a serial killer. Striving to keep his lust in check while in Louisville, one night he becomes aroused by one of the women and decides to act. Doc Withers attacks the woman, who fights him off and wounds him. Captain Lee sends troops to capture Doc Withers. Samuel asks Mary to marry him and go with him to New Jersey. She says yes.

Mary Stark attempts to visit the museum of the women’s prison but it is closed. Sam is in Louisville to follow up his lead on Dr. Stephens. He sets up surveillance and gets access to the Doctor’s hotel. In the hotel, they find a copy of the journal of Doc Withers. Sam sends his team to take Dr. Stephens. Sam visits Mary at her hotel, showing her Doc Wither’s journal and that they have captured him. Mary reads a journal entry about Doc Wither’s failed attempt and his capture by Captain Samuel Lee that matches the event in Mary Green’s journal. They go their separate ways for follow up.

Mary Stark visits the museum after closing. Looking around in one of the rooms, she sees an old newspaper article about shooting in 1864 at the prison. She sees the picture of Mary Green on the page.

Mary Green is in an old file room of the women’s prison. She hears someone in the shadows. It’s Ely Polowski. He attacks her.

Mary Stark hears someone in the shadows. It’s Colonel Low. He attacks Mary.

Ely attacks Mary Green with a knife and throws her to the ground. As they struggle, Mary grabs his gun, and shoots him.

Mary Stark fights off Colonel Low. A shot rings out killing the Colonel. Sam stands at the door. Sam tells Mary that Colonel Low had followed her using the pretext of a case review, but he never showed up.

Colonel Low had been acting disoriented and increasing abusive to the women troops, especially anyone from the South. Sam calls the local police to close out the case.

Mary Green and Samuel Tyler are married in Louisville and head off to a fort in New Jersey to start their new life.

Three months later, Mary Stark and Sam go to a battlefield graveyard to

complete Mary’s promise and lay the locket at the grave of her

great-great-great grandfather, Robert Green.

THE LOCKET'S JOURNEY