Sixteen-year-old Josie Ferguson has just lost both her parents. She is sent to live with an unknown aunt and uncle in a town on the stormy northwest coast of Scotland. But the townspeople, including her relatives, are as cold and hostile as the sea.Josie has never felt so alone.Then Eli appears. Mysterious but kind - and handsome - he sparks a desire in Josie unlike anything she has ever experienced. Even though she's been warned that Eli is forbidden, she can't stop thinking about him.And the locals are harboring a secret. When curious, determined Josie sets out to uncover it, the truth is more horrific than she could have imagined.It's a truth terrible enough to raise the spirits of the dead.