Taking leave from the military to grieve her sister's alleged suicide, Sergeant Hallie Michaels encounters her sister's ghost and is unable to convince others that her sister was actually murdered, a situation that is complicated when she meets more ghosts and is targeted by a determined killer.

"After facing Death himself and banishing a reaper bent on the destruction of Sheriff's deputy Boyd Davies, Hallie Michaels had hoped things would finally settle down; that she and Boyd would find more time to spend together, and that the ghosts she attracts would stay in the cemeteries where they belong. But on a wintry night in mid-December, a woman is murdered with a high-powered rifle. Not long after, another of West Prairie City's citizens is...