Katie Mullens is known as the weird kid. Dead dad. Dead mom. Loner. Maybe crazy. Always drawing in her sketch pad, and she talks to herselfor at least thats what it looks like. But Katie is talking to real peopletheyre just dead. Law Walker is drawn to Katie when he sees the sketch shes made of a historic homethe way it looked before it burned. Law soon discovers that Katies sight goes beyond death, and what she sees reveals the strange, twisted history of a famous Boston familys connection to the illegal post-emancipation slave trade. Past, present. Living, dead. Black, white. This is a powerhouse debut about ugly histories, unlikely romances, and seeing peoplealive and otherwisefor who they really are.