A solitary solicitor recounts events tied to an eerie marshland house and a pale, dressed-in-black spectre whose presence arrives with grief and warning.

Set in a future US where women's civil rights have been revoked, a group of female linguists—trained as interstellar translators—create a new language for women as a deliberate form of resistance.

An ancient, nonhuman presence aims to return to strength by manipulating human agents; decades later ordinary people in a rural community become entangled with that returning force.