Seventeen year old Ryland Foxglove comes from a long line of "Risers," those born to raise the dead. Whatever dead soul she touches is resurrected, and falls into step beside her in the realm of the living. But what her quaint town of Raven doesn't know is that there are secrets in the haunted Foxglove mansion where Ryland lives with her beloved wolf Pheonix and undead mother- much, much darker than the living realm could ever comprehend. And when a boy named Tandem wanders a little too close to the Foxglove secret, Ryland will have to choose between her family's past and his human future. Will Ryland be able to keep him alive the world of the Risen?