No one is more acquainted with Savannah’s dark aspect than homicide detective and local little girl Elise Sandburg. She’s been haunted for a long time by her very own mysterious history: she was deserted like a baby in one of the city’s ancient cemeteries, and it’s rumored she actually is the illegitimate child of an infamous Savannah witch doctor. The neighborhood Gullah lifestyle of voodoo and magic is certainly one that few outsiders can understand, least of most her fresh partner, David Gould, a stoic detective from up north who’s trying to recuperate from his very own wounds. When a killer’s victims start coming back through the dead, Elise is normally drawn in to the haunting recent she’s tried so hard to leave behind.