Steve has had many lives and an equal amount of deaths but this is the first time he has ever been murdered by his lover and soul mate. For Steve, his death is not the tragedy that the people left on earth consider it to be. By killing him in one regrettable but irreversible act of violence, Sam frees Steve in a way he could never comprehend. Upon leaving his body Steve's parents, who were killed years earlier along with his baby sister, Janine, greet him, and accompany him on his journey home, to the world of spirit. Before they welcome him in to their New England style house deep in the winter wonderland they created, his parents deliver him to Dee Winters, his transition counsellor. Dee initiates him back into the magical world of make believe that is the afterlife. She shows him that his own hand penned his life as Steve the last time he was dead, and documented in sacred books known as blueprints. Introducing him to the author whose thoughts she penetrated in order to share her story in The Memory Tourist, Steve is inspired and decides to channel through Hudson in exactly the same way. Soon the author is gripped by vision and begins to breathe life into The Memory Tourist's Apprentice. Consumed with guilt Sam pays heavily for what he did to Steve, languishing for many years afterwards within various unforgiving prison walls. Through countless methods Steve tries desperately to reach out to him and ease his pain for there are many things that Sam does not know yet, including what happened in the life they shared long, long ago. The life they were both stable boys. The life Sam was hanged for a crime he did not commit...