Declan Dunn, an anthropology professor who also investigates miraculous phenomena that happen to people everyday, meets Peggy Fowler, a psychiatrist at a local hospital and a skeptic. Together they try to explain how an 11-year-old boy was miraculously saved from drowning in a frozen lake.

While Peggy treats a patient who suffers a near-death experience during surgery, Declan investigates a foreign cardiologist who's wooing her -- and discovers that the so-called doctor might be more of a killer than a healer. Fearing Peggy is being courted by this con man, Declan delves into his background and unearths the mysterious disappearance of the suitor's last romantic conquest.