After the tragic loss of her husband in a line of duty shooting, Detective Joan Fortune collapses and loses their unborn child. In the ensuing weeks, Joan’s life begins to crumble around her as she desperately tries to find the drug lords responsible for her husband’s murder. Things change for Joan when a local priest brings in a three year old girl who was left abandoned at his church. Joan’s heart melts upon meeting her. Months later, Joan wins custody of little Caitlin and they, along with Joan’s mother Jessie, move to a small tourist town where Joan finds employment as the Town Sheriff. After five blissful years, the town’s children mysteriously start to go missing only to be found dead near an old mining bridge. Joan finds herself looking for an elusive killer that leaves behind zero evidence, except for bodies. The only tip she gets is from the town drunk, Charlie Malloy, who displays uneasiness after hearing a name mumbled by an elderly woman who was attacked by the supposed killer. Joan interviews him and finds his story tragic and hard to believe, but finds no reason not to believe him. As Joan tries to find answers, two FBI agents show up out of nowhere and almost immediately, Joan takes a disliking to one of the agents, Jack Helmsley. Shortly thereafter, Joan receives a phone call from a stranger who seems to know more about the case than he should, and agrees to meet Joan face to face to talk about it. Even over the phone Joan feels a certain amount of trust towards Dr. Brandon Storm Nelson, but can’t explain why. When they meet at the town diner, he begins to tell Joan a story that took place 32 years earlier that bares too many similarities to what is happening now, and to the story that Charlie Malloy had already confessed too. Joan and Brandon begin working together as they discover that Joan’s daughter, Caitlin, has the ability of telepathy and clairvoyance and can use those powers at will. It is with these abilities that Joan is able to feel and sense things about other people. It is also why they now both believe that the murderer is a malevolent ghost who happens to be Caitlin’s Grandfather, Carl Saunderson, who is just trying to find his way back to the family he killed thirty-two years earlier by reliving his past. It is only after Joan meets Caitlin’s birth mother, that Joan realizes what has to take place in order to keep the last girl taken, and her daughter, Caitlin, alive, and to put an end to the gruesome murders. Caitlin’s biological mother must meet up with her father and lead him into the light to be reunited with all of his family and does this knowing that she will die in the process.