Waking up after her own murder, Louise finds herself in the midst of a group of undead creatures calling themselves The Shadow Children - people reborn after death with strange and wondrous abilities granted to them by an unseen force. Who are they? Why were they brought back? Who are the beings in the darkness, watching their every move? What lurks beneath the city she lived and died in? Alongside her new undead family, Louise finds herself caught up in a fight for her new life and must confront her own killer before he is able to bring destruction on an epic scale to the world of the living. Louise is back from the dead, but now it seems that the dead want her back...