Some secrets are inherited. Others refuse to stay buried.

Charlie Madison has spent her life balancing two very different worlds. In one, she's a gifted trauma surgeon dedicated to saving lives. In the other, she sees and communicates with people who are already dead.

It's a family secret passed down through generations of women, a gift Charlie is still learning to understand.

When a new surgical fellowship brings her to Los Angeles, Charlie hopes to build a future on her own terms. But the dead have unfinished business, and some of their stories refuse to remain silent.

As Charlie learns to help lost souls find peace and deliver messages to those they've left behind, her extraordinary abilities draw her into situations no medical training could have prepared her for.

An earthquake rescue mission in Asia pushes her courage and compassion to their limits, while her connection to Maxwell Cole brings her into a world where danger isn't always something she can see coming.

Some secrets live beyond life and death. And some are impossible to keep buried.