When she was 15, Harper Connelly was struck by a bolt of lightning. She recovered, mostly… she has a strange spiderweb of red on parts of her bodv and her right leg has episodes of weakness. Sometimes her right hand shakes. She has headaches. And she can find dead people. Now Harper and Tolliver, her stepbrother, are hired to find a missing boy. But the truth is far worse than a single dead child for numerous teenage boys, all unlikely runaways, have disappeared from Doraville, North Carolina. There’s a serial killer at work – but the more of their secrets Harper uncovers, the greater a risk she places herself in. As she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of the town she become the next most likely person to end up in an ice cold grave