Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver are drawn into another case when she is asked by a professor at a Memphis-area college to help with a class. Clyde Nunley is an anthropology professor that is teaching a course on paranormal beliefs. He has been inviting specialists to come in and show their stuff to his class as part of their lessons. As part of that Nunley sets up a test with a small cemetery on the college's campus. Just recently a set of cemetery documents has been found, helping to identify all the occupents and how they died.

Harper's test is going to be whether or not she can use her skill to connect with the dead and experience their final moments just before death to get that information. Unfortunately, that skill works a little too well when she gets to the final grave. It is there that she senses two bodies: one is the original occupent, and the other is an 11-year-old girl named Tabitha Morgenstern.

The irony is that Tabitha was connected to a case they had worked on just 18 months earlier. The duo had been hired by Tabitha's family when she disappeared from the front yard. Harper always felt guilt that she had been unable to locate Tabitha's body. Now, she and her brother are looked on with suspicion because of the eerie coincidence.

The Morgensterns, feel the need to bond with Harper and Tolliver, because of their shared loss, but it only leads the siblings to realize how odd the family members are. There is no shortage of secrets, and at least one of them must be tied to Tabitha's death.

Suspisions of Harper deepen after she is visited by Professor Nunley in a drunken state. He accuses her of cheating before he is sent off on his way only to be found later in that grave that seems to draw bodies to it.

The tension quickly deepens as Harper and Tolliver, dig through the quirky cast of characters (both normal and paranormal) to identify what has happened before more bodies, particularly their own, turn up.