Maya Ford has been able to see the souls of murder victims since she witnessed her brother's death as a tender youth. Since then she has spent her life with a deep secret: the souls of those who were wrongfully taken from life come to her for help.
Unfortunately she hasn't the ability to save them. Maya believes she alone can see the dead until her parents move to the idyllic backwoods town of Coalton, West Virginia. She meets Mark Wilson, a handsome young man who can also see the souls of the dead. They not only share in this ability but they learn that there is an entire secret society of people with the ability to communicate with the lost souls of the murdered and send them to the other side for either eternal rest or, conversely, eternal punishment.
This discovery has a downside for Maya and Mark: War brewing between a malevolent entity the Soul Shepherds call the Rogue. His is a soul so old, so evil, not even the Shepherds know his origins. All they know is he is a threat to not only their way of life, but to mankind as a whole.