A bolt of lightning struck Harper Connelly when she was 15, leaving herwith a strange spider web of red on her torso and right leg, episodes ofweakness, shakes and headaches - and an ability to find dead people.Harper is summoned to Memphis to demonstrate her unique talent, but thereare still plenty of sceptics, even as Harper stands atop a grave andannounces there are two bodies buried there. The police are convincedthere's something fishy going on when the grave is opened to reveal thecenturies-dead remains of a man, which they'd expected (that being hisgrave, after all) and a dead girl, which no one expected - except Harper,of course. And suspicions are raised even further because Harper hadfailed to find eleven-year-old Tabitha Morgenstern when she was abductedtwo years before.Harper and Tolliver need to find the real killer to prove Harper'sinnocence, especially after their nocturnal visit to the cemetery in hopesthat Harper can sense something more is followed by the discovery, thefollowing morning, of a third dead body in the grave . . .