Dominick Pindle's life takes a dangerous turn the summer of his sixteenth year when he becomes involved with his father's mistress and his mother dies in a motel room after trying to abort a pregnancy that resulted from her affair with the local sheriff.
Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past.
When her parents, much mocked for their work as "ghost hunters," are found murdered one winter night, it is up to Sylvie to learn the truth about them-both how they died, and the secrets of their lives.
Returning home to live with his mother, who is still grieving over the death of her younger son, Ronnie, Philip Chase learns that Ronnie's former girlfriend is pregnant with Ronnie's child--despite the fact that Ronnie died five years earlier.
When Sylvie Mason's parents venture out to an old church as part of their efforts to help "haunted souls," they each vanish behind the church's doors, leaving Sylvie to wonder what happened. In the months that follow, Sylvie unearths the mysteries behind her parents' work and uncovers secrets that have followed her own family for years.
Philip Chase moves back home with his mother who is still grieving over the death of Ronnie, her younger son five years previous, but life makes an unusual turn when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up nine months pregnant with Ronnie's child.
