Purity Soule was born with a rare gift, one that she has always wished she never received. In the dark of the night, when she slumbers within dreamless sleep, the spirits of the dead seek her out - trapped through whatever devices bind them to the mortal world, they find her and bid for her aid.

She is a medium, a Dead Speaker, and it has become her task amidst the waking world to take the deceased within her soul and guide them through the haze of the Shroud to their final release.

But the task is never easy, for whatever could bind the power of a soul is a truly something to be reckoned with - and feared.

Aiding her with her tasks, she has found unlikely allies... Jack, the “guy downstairs” and her best friend and companion; Lillithe, a witch of the Old World; and Father Jaecob, her legal guardian and priest of Catholicism.