A widow embarks upon a crusade to find the truth about her husband's mysterious death and the chilling faces he saw in the rain.
Gwenn Chapel watched the rain wash her husband away like a fingerprint on a window. It just started falling one day and when it stopped, the man she knew as her husband was simply gone, and another had been left in his place.
He'd been slowly transformed from loving husband and successful police detective into something terrifying. Through that watery curtain, John Chapel insisted he saw faces from eight centuries past, faces that whispered his name, telling him to come home. The name they called was "John the Butcher" and "home" was twelfth-century Rouen.
With the aid of her husband's cryptic journal, an eccentric history professor and a con artist, she begins a journey that will challenge everything she believed about her husband, her faith, and the limits of her own sanity. Will she be able to face what awaits her at the end of that journey, or will she share the same fate as him?