The ghost of a soldier turned writer joins a quest to save a human
life.
The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union
soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting.
Enlisting the aid of a haunting agent, he finds a new residence that has
the requisite dark history and terrible secret that makes it appropriate
for haunting. Here he meets new spirits who reside in this version of
the afterlife, a middle place between life and the ultimate destination.
Against his intentions, Bierce becomes caught up in the unsolved mystery
of his new haunt. In partnership with an old friend, a Buddhist priest
named Sid who has inhabited the spirit world for 25 centuries, he
reluctantly involves himself in the matters of still living people.
Bierce and his friend also become aware of the presence of mysterious
others who are spirits who never held human form. Bierce, Sid, and
other new spirit friends ultimately find themselves as part of a quest
to save a human life, rescue another spirit from oblivion, and discover
the identity of the others.