The unsolved disappearance of his ten-year-old daughter, Samantha, drives MCI executive, Patrick Hanna, to drinking, divorce, and a desperate attempt to save his shattered life. His plan is simple: get out of the city and go back to Fork Mountain, stay in the old family cabin above Richwood, West Virginia, a retreat he knew with his recently-deceased father. Avoid human contact; try to heal his heart and mind.
But Patrick soon finds he's not alone on the mountain. Mysterious visits from several little girls soon become regular. And no one in the area, including Ginny, his mother, can account for them or their families. It's as if they don't exist.
Patrick rekindles an old flame with local librarian, Heather, his high school sweetheart, and soon finds out that Caleb, her blind son, can also see and communicate with the girls. The only other person who can is Phillip Ables, an old, Fork Mountain hermit and former convict who served twenty years for his alleged link to the disappearance of several children a generation before.
As time goes by, Patrick learns that the girls are ghosts of missing children, most of whom disappeared on Fork Mountain. They're coming to him for help because, even in death, their abductor still torments them.
Patrick struggles to solve their mystery in the midst of confronting his drinking and depression. To free the girls from abuse so they can pass on to eternity, he must learn the identity and motive of their killer. Was Phillip Ables guilty of the crimes for which he'd been convicted? Or was another party responsible; someone like the girls, who's already dead? As if his own personal demons weren't enough, he's now seeking peace for tormented ghosts.
Based on historical fact, From the Graves of Babes is set in the real community of Richwood, West Virginia, and involves an actual secluded, unmarked gravesite where paranormal activity has long been witnessed and recorded. It is sure to be the most read, West Virginia ghost tale for generations to come.
