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?"