Chandara Gupta, a Hindu woman from India, was a passenger on United Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. She became a Churail, a ghost-vampire, created when a Hindu woman meets an untimely death. Chandara meets Tom Ryan and instantly becomes infatuated with him. She begins to seduce Tom by draining away his life force and binding him to her. His wife, Rebecca and Roger Crane must stop the Churail from stealing Tom away from Rebecca.