In Picoult's signature writing style, the novel flashes back and forth many decades to piece together the story.

The story is about Abenaki territorial land that is planned to be turned into a shopping mall.

Ross is the survivor of many varied suicide attempts, which began after his fiancée Aimee was killed in a car accident years ago.

Ross became a ghost hunter in the hopes that someday he would encounter Aimee's spirit.

Fortunately for Ross, when he arrives in Comtosook, the town begins to experience strange phenomena, as the result of the new plans to build a strip mall on the Abenaki land.