Veronica didn't believe in ghosts-until her son became one... Veronica von Derbach is a young mother with a promising career in psychology. She considers herself a sane person, with no interest in paranormal hocus-pocus, until a fateful camping trip tears her life apart. While boating in the midst of a turbulent storm, her only child, Sullivan, disappears from the bow of the boat. Though they never find his body, he can only be presumed dead. Veronica can't bring herself to move on... Searching for peace, Veronica finds herself drawn to the darker, less respected career of parapsychology, the study of apparitional beings. But she finds no answers there, only bitterness. She takes great pleasure in traveling the United States, debunking paranormal mysteries and discrediting ghostly claims. She doesn't believe in ghosts. She doesn't believe in anything except the emptiness that has claimed her since the disappearance of Sullivan. But then she receives a mysterious fax-a grainy, ghostly image of her long-lost son. To find the truth, she must delve into the unknown... Veronica now faces the greatest challenge of her career. She must succeed in her search for Sullivan and find out the dreadful truth about what happened to him that day at the lake, before other children suffer the same fate.