Jasper Creed is the most famous psychic medium in America. Twelve bestselling books. A Netflix special. Sold-out venues where grieving parents pay hundreds of dollars to hear him channel their dead children.

Jennifer Stone grew up in foster care reading every one of those books. She believed Jasper was like her. That the whispers she'd heard since childhood, the shadows that moved wrong, the feeling of being watched by something vast and patient, meant she wasn't alone. That someone else could feel it too.

She won a contest for the final seat at "An Evening Beyond the Veil," a live-broadcast seance at the Colby Memorial Temple in Cassadaga, Florida. Ten celebrities at fifty thousand dollars a seat. And Jennifer, the charity case, given one question and told to be seen and not heard.

It takes her less than a minute to realize Jas ...