While enraged spirits threaten the people she loves, a woman struggles to accept the strange gift she's previously shunned to protect them. In APPARITIONS the dead seek vengeance as those alive strive to keep their tentative hold on sanity and life. BAILEY KHANE is a renowned author visited by ghostly guests; murder victims seeking the peace of the grave. Unbeknownst to her, they were all slain by the same man, MACE PRESTON. Mace, a madman who believes he's judge and executioner over every woman he meets, recognizes his crimes in Bailey's novels and hunts her to eradicate his only witness. Caught between the growing shadow of Mace's knife and the unholy fury of the dead left in his wake, Bailey has no where to turn and must rely on obscure knowledge of the occult, superstition and myth to survive. ANDY BENNETT, private investigator and brother of one of the slain women...