Adrift in a lonely afterlife, dead detective Kevin Fahey must reach the living to save a young mother from an untimely demise. As dead detective Kevin Fahey roams the streets of his small Delaware town postmortem, he finds himself infatuated with a young preschool teacher eagerly awaiting the birth of her first child. The love she shares with her husband is balm to his tortured soul. But when the schoolteacher abruptly disappears and the town’s suspicions turn against the husband, Fahey must find way to alert the living to what has really happened to her. His journey takes him to the Delmonte House, a magnificent mansion on the edge of town where a famous television star and his young wife—maimed by too much plastic surgery—live in unhappy silence. As servants come and go, another invisible occupant of the mansion makes his own unhappiness felt—a despair acutely painful to Fahey, his fellow wanderer. Strange visitors, self-denial, decades-old secrets and an unlikely hero all come together in a desperate race to save the life of the young school teacher before it is too late.
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