In a world where the dead do not always stay dead, some memories are more dangerous than ghosts.

Caelia has always believed that losing someone means learning to live with their absence. But when the boy she once tried to save returns carrying secrets no living person should have, she is pulled into a hidden world of unfinished deaths, buried truths, and creatures that wear the shape of grief.

Evan came back from something no one was meant to survive.

Now, hunted by those who fear what he is and haunted by the past that made him, he must face the truth of his return before the darkness inside that truth consumes everyone tied to him.

Some people disappear because they are gone.

Others disappear because the world is trying to forget them.