Harper Connelly received her gift after she was struck by lightning. The girl can determine where the body of a deceased person is and share the last moments of his life with the dead man. She serves the dead and gives comfort to the living. True, the dead don’t care: they have eternity ahead of them. But the living are impatient and, as a rule, are not happy with what Harper tells them. In the novel Dead Man's Gift, Harper Connelly, at the request of an acquaintance, arrives in Memphis to demonstrate his unique gift. There, in the old cemetery, to the surprise of those present and her own, she discovers two bodies at once in one grave. But this is not the last surprise. The next morning, a third corpse is found in the same burial.