Forced out of her home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg Finn becomes a wanderer, joining forces with Belch, her partner in crime, until an attempted robbery goes horribly wrong, leaving Meg's spirit cast into limbo, where she becomes caught in the middle in the battle of good and evil, with the fate of her soul at stake.
The first message sent to Tom Thorne's phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the bulletins for a reported death that matches the photograph. Then another picture arrives.