Where The Dead Wait

William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after afailed expedition to find the fabled Open Polar Sea, in which hismen only survived by eating their comrades, he returned indisgrace. A cannibal. A murderer.Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, hasgone missing in the same waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance torestore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens - the manwho's haunted his whole life - back home. But when the rescuemission into the frozen wastes becomes an uncanny journey intohis own past, Day must face up to the things he's done.Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted passengers: areporter obsessively digging up the truth about the first expedition,and Stevens's wife, a spiritualist whose séances both fascinate andfrighten. Following a trail of cryptic messages, gaunt bodies, and oldbones, their search becomes more and more unnerving, as itbecomes clear that - for Day - the restless dead are never farbehind.