Grady McDonnell is the latest in a long line of sin eaters. Despite his attempts to escape his fate he has begun to work for the same shadowy and mysterious organization his father and his father’s father worked for. He absorbs the sins of the recently deceased. When he does so he relives the sins of the dead. He can see the aura of death around those who are about to die, and when he touches that aura, he can experience that person’s memories. Grady wonders what effect this has on his soul. He wonders who he works for. Who sends him? Why are the people he is sent to absolve chosen? As he continues his task he begins to question the motives behind the people he works for. When he discovers there are others who have unique abilities also being rounded up by the same organization he knows that something is at work and it may not be good. How can he save his own soul when he is so busy saving everyone else’s?