In the sequel to the award winning novel The Passer, Eleanor Bouchard learns she possesses the ability to interact with the dead when she is reunited with her deceased boyfriend, Jeremy Garrison. Their encounter is brief as Eleanor is forced to return to the world of the living, but not before Jeremy warns her to be careful who she trusts. No one in her life is what they seem. Jeremy's ominous message holds true when Eleanor's family and closest friends reveal profound secrets that shatter her perception of the people she thought she knew. Determined to make contact with Jeremy again, Eleanor's desire to reconnect with him is pitted against the powerful bond she shares with her current lover, Daniel Archer, and his supernaturally gifted step-daughter, Amelia Monroe. Haunted by Daniel's deceased wife, Katharine Monroe, Eleanor accepts the other-worldly possession that has brought them together, but struggles against it when she is unable to overcome the overwhelming force that compels her to find Jeremy. Even when Jeremy reveals his role in a sinister deception that devastates her world, she is unable to deny the undying love she harbors for him. Amid the emotional upheaval encompassing her life, Eleanor's powers rapidly evolve. When she meets with Jeremy for what she believes is the final time, her abilities are pushed beyond her control, resulting in deadly consequences. Resigned that he is lost to her forever, she prepares to dismantle her life in River Mist, California. But when a raging fire threatens the mountain home Jeremy built for her she races to save it, and is confronted with a life-changing revelation.