Bobby Cotton's mundane life is interrupted when he finds a dead body in Rusted Lakes Park. He is drawn to the girl for reasons he doesn't understand and decides to hide his discovery from everybody.

When the dead girl speaks to Bobby, he sees it as his responsibility to protect her and finds himself in an unusual love triangle. As the girl deteriorates, he must find new vessels for her to inhabit-or risk losing her forever.

Detective Gregory Burns wakes to a routine murder investigation, but soon realizes there's nothing routine about it when the killer contacts him and promises there will be more. Burns' home and work life blur as he tries to catch the elusive killer and keep the secret phone calls from his job and everybody he cares about.

Bobby's descent into madness and Greg's quest to solve the case no matter the consequences collide in a game only one can win.