Can revenge reach out from the grave?

Orphan Jay doesn't want to hurt anyone he tries so hard not to. Yet he has a terrible secret...

Nurse Laura Parris is determined to protect him, but when she meets Victor Brodman, a widower, she wonders if she can finally reveal Jay's disturbing past. That he's the only survivor of a terrifying shipwreck, the vengeance child, and that soon his shadow will fall over all humanity...