A young boy passed beyond the pale of death i-and returned with no answers - except chilling clues to the ultimate mystery... An old man spent his life solving mysteries until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death... A beautiful girl—for whom sex held no mystery but whose fate was a question mark—was caught in a whirlpool of forces beyond her control... Each was prey to the intrigue that shadowed them, and all the others in their trendy world of wealth, power and pleasure-an evil that reached out from the abyss of the past to haunt the present and claim the living....