__Twelve-year-old Tabitha Treeright is dead.__Her body rests in the morgue below Duke University Medical Center, awaiting the arrival of her father, Daniel Treeright, Governor of North Carolina and presidential hopeful.

A paroled child molester drives down a dark and lonely road, an unnatural voice in his head urging him on, directing him toward Tabitha's body.

In one night, a man is beaten and arrested, a corpse goes missing from the morgue, a mysterious girl appears alive in the hospital lobby, and the lives of many - scheming politicians, untrustworthy doctors, wise priests, nervous security guards, hungry journalists, convicted criminals, and grieving parents - are thrown into a maelstrom of madness, mystery, and possible miracles.

Tabitha Treeright is dead. But that strange voice asks, "or is she?"