Harper Connelly, a young woman possessing the ability to uncover the final location of a recently deceased individual and to share their last moments, aided by her manager and stepbrother Tolliver, uses her skill to find the dead.

"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....