Gray tracks a spectral dog into a hidden cave, only to uncover Samuel, a rogue soul chaperon who orchestrated Gray's fate and has lived for over a century by possessing bodies.

Gray follows a fragile lead deeper into the White Mountains, where the boundary between the living and the dead begins to warp. There, he encounters a face from his past—his boyhood bully—now entangled in the same unraveling mystery, forcing Gray to confront what should have stayed buried.

Gray seeks out Motor Mel, a stubborn hitchhiking ghost haunting the White Mountains, hoping for answers about the growing threat. But Mel knows more than he's willing to share.

Gray visits Madam Bahkita to exchange his pay and submit to a mandatory reading, hoping to hide what he knows. Instead, a terrifying new tarot card reveals the threat haunting his district: a man-made creature that feeds on the already dead.

Gray wakes in the cavernous home he once shared with his wife and retraces how a dying German Shepherd pulled him into the hidden world of soul chaperoning.

Soul chaperon Gray Greene arrives outside a White Mountains bar to guide a newly dead tourist through a familiar doorway. But when an unseen force intercepts the crossing and obliterates the man’s soul, Gray is left shaken and facing a nightmare that management will demand he explain.