After a midnight tragedy leaves an orphaned toddler to wander into an ancient cemetery, the local residents—ranging from Roman centurions to Victorian gentlefolk—make the unconventional decision to raise him as one of their own. Granted the "Freedom of the Graveyard," the boy, renamed Nobody Owens, grows up in a world where the living are the outsiders and the dead are his neighbors, mentors, and protectors.

The central conflict rests on a delicate balance: while the graveyard offers a supernatural sanctuary, the man who murdered Nobody’s family remains in the world of the living, searching for the child who escaped him. As Nobody, or "Bod," navigates the transition from childhood to adolescence, he must master the skills of the dead—such as Fading and Haunting—to survive a world that he...

After a midnight tragedy leaves an orphaned toddler to wander into an ancient cemetery, the local residents—ranging from Roman centurions to Victorian gentlefolk—make the unconventional decision to raise him as one of their own. Granted the "Freedom of the Graveyard," the boy, renamed Nobody Owens, grows up in a world where the living are the outsiders and the dead are his neighbors, mentors, and protectors.

The central conflict rests on a delicate balance: while the graveyard offers a supernatural sanctuary, the man who murdered Nobody’s family remains in the world of the living, searching for the child who escaped him. As Nobody, or "Bod," navigates the transition from childhood to adolescence, he must master the skills of the dead—such as Fading and Haunting—to survive a world that he...