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When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it. The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases. Where he expects to find one ghost, he instead discovers two.

The ability to see the ghosts of homicide victims has always been more burden than gift and, for 20-year-old Sullivan, it's never been heavier. As the storm of the century pummels the city, he finds himself sucked into a mystery, struggling to decipher clues from a ghost intent on saving a missing teenage girl. With time running out, Sullivan races to fulfill the ghost's desperate quest, a path that will take him into a world of witchcraft, dark secrets, and murder.

When 17-year-old Gabe disappears after a visit to the Edge Creek Light, brothers Sully and Dez are called upon to find him. As private investigators, they come with a unique skill: Sully can see the ghosts of homicide victims.

When Sully’s boss is fatally shot, he becomes the main suspect in the homicide. The woman's ghost is guarding a secret, one that will reveal the true killer - if Sully can convince her to show him. But he's got other problems. The terror-stricken ghost of a powerful clairvoyant has intentions of his own, and Sully finds himself an unwilling accomplice on the spirit’s violent journey. As Sully struggles to cope with two ghosts and his own internal demons, Dez and the rest of his family fear he’s losing himself to his gift. And he might just lose more than that.

When the Second Son rises, the Circle will fall. Uttered years earlier by a troubled seer, the prophesy provides a significant clue to the death of five-year-old Aiden Braddock. But gathering proof enough to catch a killer is easier said than done. Their relationship strained by the recent revelation of devastating secrets, Sully and Dez must figure out a way to work together as they continue to seek justice for their loved ones. As he closes in on a final confrontation with one of his most dangerous foes, Sully’s about to discover his darkest enemy might be himself.

For years, the legend of Faceless Flo - a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s - has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost. Some were never seen again. Among the missing is a young banker who vanished 30 years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help. But not everything is as it seems. As Sully begins to unravel the truth, he finds himself on a collision course with an angry and dangerous spirit, and an enemy from his past who is guarding a dark secret.

Four years ago, 17-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident. Sullivan Gray knows better. A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder.

Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink — by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him. In a small cell, Sully finds himself alone, but for a disturbed man and the ghost of a teenager he has always known only as the Purple Girl. As his time runs out, he begins to piece together a past he’d rather have left in the shadows.

For nearly a century, Thornview Hall has played host to occultism, betrayal, and murder. It’s managed to hold onto its secrets. Until now. When Sully is forced to publicly reveal that he can see and communicate with the dead, he launches himself and his brother, Dez, into a disturbing murder investigation.

More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall. But as Sully and Dez close in, Lowell makes one last desperate strike—one that threatens everything the brothers and their loved ones hold dear.