San Diego, 1918. World War I and the deadly flu—the “Spanish flu”—take a harvest of the dead. The world is on the brink of apocalypse. People walk the streets in masks, and the government sends men to the front. Fear and confusion fill the air.
Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches how people who have lost loved ones try to find comfort in seances. The girl doesn’t believe in ghosts, trusting scientific facts. Everything changes when her beloved who died in the war returns to Mary… as a spirit.
A bodiless echo of the person she loved. What does he want from her? What’s happening in this city? Could it be that ghosts really exist? Mary must figure out why her beloved came back from the other world—and what fate his mysterious and horrifying appearance brings her…