Eighteen-year-old Jack McKinnon isn't just a medium. He's the only person alive who can truly see and speak to the uneasy dead. He spent his childhood on the liminal edge of the afterlife, taking more comfort from ghosts than from human connection. Now, he's found a new kind of family in a traveling team of paranormal researchers. Their mission: to free the dead and protect the living.

When the team is hired to investigate the haunted Keyes house, Jack meets a ghost unlike any he's encountered before. Esme Renault is newly dead, full of rage, and bound to the place of her murder. Her killer is still out there, and Jack is determined to help her find peace.

But Esme's death is only the beginning. As Jack digs deeper, he uncovers a ritual darker than any haunting. A necromancer is collecting souls to complete a trinity of sacrifices?maiden, mother, and crone?in order to grant himself godlike power. Esme's ghost is bound to his plan. Jack's death will seal it.

To stop the ritual, Jack must risk his body, his mind, and the soul he's only just begun to reclaim. But as the clock runs out, one question haunts him:

How do you say goodbye to someone you never got the chance to love?