While driving on a lakeshore road in Chicago, a woman given to visions is invaded by screams. Her boyfriend investigates and discovers the area was the site of the most notorious prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and it is their souls who are screaming. The story of the Camp Douglas Massacre.

When a young man from her Chicago neighborhood vanishes in Iraq and the U.S. government denies knowledge of his whereabouts, Nuala launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth.

Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.