The Soul Chaperon

Soul chaperon Gray Greene arrives outside a White Mountains bar to guide a newly dead tourist through a familiar doorway. But when an unseen force intercepts the crossing and obliterates the man’s soul, Gray is left shaken and facing a nightmare that management will demand he explain.

Gray wakes in the cavernous home he once shared with his wife and retraces how a dying German Shepherd pulled him into the hidden world of soul chaperoning.

Gray visits Madam Bahkita to exchange his pay and submit to a mandatory reading, hoping to hide what he knows. Instead, a terrifying new tarot card reveals the threat haunting his district: a man-made creature that feeds on the already dead.

Gray seeks out Motor Mel, a stubborn hitchhiking ghost haunting the White Mountains, hoping for answers about the growing threat. But Mel knows more than he's willing to share.

Gray follows a fragile lead deeper into the White Mountains, where the boundary between the living and the dead begins to warp. There, he encounters a face from his past—his boyhood bully—now entangled in the same unraveling mystery, forcing Gray to confront what should have stayed buried.

Gray tracks a spectral dog into a hidden cave, only to uncover Samuel, a rogue soul chaperon who orchestrated Gray's fate and has lived for over a century by possessing bodies.

Gray fights for his life against a relentless golem sent by Todd's cleanup crew, only to uncover a deeper conspiracy involving corrupted chaperon doors.

Back home, Gray receives a blood-activated invitation to a clandestine séance. As unsettling connections surface-including a visitor linked to a buried local crime-Gray realizes the path forward many be more dangerous than he thought.

Arriving at a remote, ominous estate for the séance, Gray navigates strange encounters-including the cryptic Madam Bahkita-only to find the night already in motion. As he steps inside, a shocking reveal awaits.

Posing under a false name, Gray enters a sinister gathering of possessed bodies and occult elites, where a single misstep could trap him inside a deadly game he’s not equipped to survive.