Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by the ghost he sought to kill. Now, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, following legends and local lore, destroying the murderous dead.Cas expects the normal track, hunt, and kill for the ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, but what he finds instead is a ghost unlike anything he's faced before. Since her death, Anna has killed every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.Yet she spares Cas's life.