...In the quiet, sleepy town of Claysville, a series of brutal murders took place. The first of the victims was the elderly Mrs. Maylene Barrow. Friends of the deceased urgently call her granddaughter Rebecca to the city. But not just for a funeral, and not just so that the girl takes over inheritance rights. Only these people know who Meiling really was. Namely, the Guardian of the Tomb. And there was no more important person in Claysville than her. Meiling protected the world of the living from the world of the dead. Rebecca is told strange and scary things: that the dead sometimes return to our world, killing the living, and about the mystical agreement between the town authorities and “the other world.” And also that she, Rebecca, is destined to become the new Guardian of the Tomb - and finally restore order in the city, returning the dead to where they belong...