His obsession with death was unhealthy, but it didn't become dangerous until death became obsessed back.While Jackson takes care of his dying father, navigates his rocky relationship with Amanda, and watches the company he works for go out of business, his panic attacks return with a vengeance. In a stressed fugue, he sees a figure approach his father's death bed, singing a lullaby. And when he looks into his father's eyes, he sees something he can't define, dancing within the irises.With his life falling apart around him, Jackson finds comfort in a new hobby: seeking out dead things and trying to find that hidden pattern in their eyes, hoping to lure the mysterious figure he'd seen at his father's bedside from the darkness.But one day, Jackson finds the wrong dead thing. Her name is Lexia, and she's angry.