The ghost of dashing Victorian explorer Brendan Tyrell haunts Marissa Erickson, his biographer. Their meeting stirs up dangerous currents from the past as well as unsolved mysteries. What happened to Brendan's unpublished manuscripts? Who was the heavily veiled woman at Brendan's funeral? And finally, how did Brendan really die? Marissa must find the answers to these troubling questions to free Brendan's earthbound spirit.