A young woman struggles to understand a series of disasters that is overtaking her friends. How is their fate linked to a seance they took part in five years earlier, in which they each received a prophecy? And what is the link to Oliver Halkin and his troubled son Edward?

Louise Knight is pregnant but loses her child in a car crash. Blaming herself, she cannot forget the child that she would have called Toby. When she becomes pregnant again, she cannot persuade her husband or her doctors that she is haunted by the malevolent spirit of Toby—who threatens her life and that of her unborn child.

Gary, a young down-and-out, is driven by his mysterious friend Michael to murder the elderly social worker who is trying to help him. When Anna takes over the case, unaware that the death was not accidental, Gary finds himself torn between her and Michael.

A couple move into Windwhistle House, a Victorian mansion in Yorkshire. After a sequence of horrific incidents, the woman becomes convinced that the house is haunted but her husband, who has made a successful career debunking the paranormal, is sceptical. When she hears a rumour that the previous owner murdered his wife, she leaves, and her husband is left to discover his home's secrets alone....