Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.

Newly wedded crime scene photographer Sarah Bain and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett investigate a stabbing victim found in the crypt of a church in 1890s London, which leads to a ghost-hunting expedition and a second murder.

"Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman-Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity...

"Have you seen these teens? They ran away from home, but now they're officially missing. Were they kidnapped? Murdered? Did something, or someone, cause them to simply vanish--into thin air? Three people believe that the boy with a secret gift--Cole Sear--can solve the mystery."