A young child becomes the pawn in a deadly battle of wills between his deceased parents in this gripping and profoundly original psychological thriller perfect for fans of What Have You Done and Middle of the Night.

When a commercial flight goes down en route to Hawaii, all 184 people on board perish with the one exception of a two-year-old boy named Ethan. Before their untimely deaths, Ethan's parents, Tag and Amanda, chose their good friends Matthew and Nicole to be Ethan's guardians in the event that the worst ever happened. From the afterlife, grief-stricken Tag and Amanda watch as Nicole's addictions (which the family had hidden), the family's financial struggles, and the public obsession with their story ignite events that threaten Ethan's welfare.

Believing her son belongs with her, and no one else, Amanda becomes obsessed with bringing Ethan to the afterlife. And the one way she knows to do that is by possessing the body of a living person and murdering Ethan. Tag knows he must do whatever it takes to protect his son from his wife even if it means being banished to an alternate existence where he'll never see his family again. What The Dead Can Do is a dark, psychological, speculative thriller tinged with horror, destined to keep listeners' minds spinning long after the end.