<p>Cryptic drawings maps strange symbols. This is what twelve-year-old Mike Hilliard discovers as he investigates the long-dead ruthless millionaire Titus Morley. As these strange symbols and drawings hover in his dreams Mike rambles through the listless Cleveland Heights summer with Billy Hayworth a photography intern at the Western Reserve Historical Society where Mike&rsquo;s uncle Robert &ldquo;Otto&rdquo; Hilliard is an historian. After his death in an 1872 refinery explosion Titus Morley&rsquo;s treasure trove of rare grimoires and ancient masks disappeared. Could the drawings and maps provide clues? Mike and Billy are determined to find out. But after rambling through a nearby cemetery at midnight Mike&rsquo;s confidence is shaken Billy is not the same and a soul-stirring horror has been awakened. A fortune in missing books and masks. A long-dead millionaire who wanted out of his body and wanted to command the dead. Bodies missing from morgues and graves. What can these things possibly mean to a boy spending the summer with his uncle?</p>