Oakland, Louisiana a southern town with a midwestern feel; a town full of families, jobs and a lot of charm. Vanessa Bessette is a young seventeen year old girl, pretty, popular and yearning for life outside of her hometown and ready to be living out her dreams and exploring the world. Miles Jones is in her class and finds himself bullied constantly at school and his relationship with his father is like a plane without a pilot and he too wants to escape. The typical things, right? One problem . . . . Oakland is anything, but typical. This town has a twenty year old secret that refuses to stay buried. Teenagers are dying, not just dying, but are being murdered by a woman who hides in the shadows to hide the ugliness of her decomposed skin, and her black eyes that matches the blackness of her heart. Vanessa and Milo soon discover that their respective parents have a connection they never knew about, a horrible secret that is coming back in the worst way and is now destroying the new generation. Now Vanessa and Milo have to solve the mystery before they are next on this supernatural hitlist and stop this evil that has been, Resurrected.