Ryland Ferris is a well-known television ghost hunter. When the cameras are off he's a psychic medium able to see and hear the very ghosts he investigates. The living and the dead fight for his attention and help. Both collide when Ryland's latest investigation brings him back to his hometown in Rhode Island. Old rivals and estranged family members plead for the medium to stop a sinister, looming presence. An ancient spirit oppresses the town and sinks its claws into the people Ryland cares for most. He soon realizes the dead are controlling the living. The masked spirit has an agenda. It isn't looking for absolution. It isn't preparing for damnation. The spirit plans on living again and Ryland Ferris is its only way back to life.