Dr. Mike Royce has a problem. His patients keep dying. His skills as an ER doctor are unmatched, but he can't save them all. With every death, his sense of failure grows.With the help of a brilliant nurse-once his patient, now his trusted colleague and sometime lover-Royce embarks on a controversial research project to challenge the inevitability of death. When Royce and his team discover a never-before observed energy in the body, they believe they've stumbled upon the soul itself. And they make a tantalizing connection between the egress of this soul energy and imminent, certain death.To forestall death and change the trajectory of human life, Royce must find a way to stop that soul-energy from leaving the body, before his own mysteriously erratic, increasingly unstable mind betrays him.