A spell to protect the dead. A desire for power beyond our world. Those devoid of a soul. Through a harsh, driving winter in Baltimore, a widowed father battles unseen forces to protect his son, who may have inherited the soul of a monster...only to find there are greater horrors beyond the shadows of the living. Jack Emory is trying to build a life with his son in a new city, still struggling after the mysterious death of his wife, driven off the edge of their apartment building by an old woman. His son, Theo, witnessed his mother's death, and Jack knows it haunts him every day. After his son is randomly attacked by a young girl, Jack begins to seriously question whether the two incidents might be somehow related. His journey leads him back into the past: to his wife's family, to their old life back in New York, and to a reality that his son is in danger from a force far beyond Jack's control. But that doesn't stop a father from protecting his son, and he will do everything in his power to find the truth, even if that truth leads to murder. Is there life after death?