In a rain-soaked university dorm, a gifted student's farewell poem vanishes?and a cup of tea freezes solid in twenty-eight-degree heat. Years later, Ethan Hayes returns with a secret diagnosis the world calls the "Ebola of the mind," and the one person he can't stop orbiting is his former teacher, Sophie Parker. But Sophie's brother?Adrian Parker, the cold, brilliant doctor who once held Ethan's life in his hands?steps back into the room, and old debts wake up. As Ethan's perfectly polite smile hides something violent and hungry, one question hangs over every scene: is the haunting in this story supernatural... or is it the kind of love that destroys whoever gets too close?