Ada Carpenter went to her grave knowing that, although she had killed her husband, his malicious spirit still lingered in the old mortuary in Dunsmuir, California. As she left her earthly body behind, she went with the prayer on her lips that her dearest friend, Emily, would find a way to protect others from his wicked intentions. Horace had other ideas. The longer his spirit remained trapped in the mortuary, the angrier he became. His hatred began...

"In 1983, a state-of-the-art drilling ship, the Derleth, vanished near the Arctic Circle. Decades later, it has begun sending a distress call... Tracing the signal to a remote atoll in the Bering Strait, the Rococo oil company hires the Carpenter brothers and their salvage crew to investigate the ghost ship. Joined by a marine biologist and an oil executive, the brothers set out on a grim mission to learn what caused the disappearance and recover...