Eleanor Druse has always been interested in the paranormal, but her fascination intensifies after she has a near-death experience at Kingdom Hospital while visiting a childhood friend who had attempted suicide. But it’s while being treated for a mysterious condition at Boston General Hospital that Eleanor falls under the care of her nemesis, a surgeon named Stegman who doesn’t believe in her psychic gifts.

Escaping the clutches of Stegman, Eleanor returns home to Lewiston, Maine, where she hears of more strange occurrences at Kingdom Hospital. She feels compelled to investigate and enlists her reluctant son Bobby, an orderly there, to help her. It seems the hospital rests on the site of a textile mill that burned to the ground nearly 150 years ago, incinerating many workers, including child labourers. Eleanor is convinced that the spirit of one girl, Mary Jensen, is trapped in the hospital, and that the apparition seeks resolution for her grisly death. She also senses other evil presences in the ancient hallways, including the spirit of a doctor whose past may be intimately bound up with the child’s, and with Eleanor’s childhood as well.

Providing fascinating insights into the very nature of the spirits that haunt the hereafter, these carefully kept journals trace Eleanor’s investigations into Kingdom Hospital, from the beginning of her covert work up until its stunning and terrifying conclusion.