Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls,...

Nine-year-old Mathias is constantly haunted by dreams of the Silent Lady—she does him no harm, yet she appears every night, watching him with a sorrowful gaze and remaining utterly mute; now, he is terrified to fall asleep. Exhausted and desperate, his parents turn to Pietro Gerber—a Florentine hypnotist specializing in trauma therapy for children. Gerber agrees to help, only to find himself...