Mike Smith, a retired detective from Los Angeles, decides to travel to small town in Ashland Colorado. He decides to pursue the teachings of his aunt. Mike's parents in the past forbid him to communicate with her. In the quaint town of Ashland, she had a reputation for practicing witchcraft and study of the occult. After establishing a room in Ashland, he decides to take a hike of the mountain. Being a retired detective, he naturally wanted to investigate the mountainous area to see what he could. Once he made it to a cabin owned by the U.S Forest Service, he finds a nearby tree stump to take a rest. Suddenly, he hears the gurgling of some strange person trying to breath. Looking over to his right, he noticed a woman slumped over. It appeared that she impaled herself front to back. Mike could see that she seemed to be fighting for her life. He shines his flashlight into her eyes. Weirdly, when he shines the flashlight to her eyes there are no pupils. All he could see is the whites of her eyes. This made him shriek and freeze in fear. Moving further, he grabs the wrist of this woman to find a pulse. The body felt cold deathly and deathly pail with no pulse. He also notices an X carved by a knife in the middle of her forehead. Suddenly, the woman pulled a dagger out of her belt and made an attempt to stab Mike. She raised it high in the air then weirdly everything vanished as if it never happened.
Mike yearns to get away from the streets of Los Angeles. He grew tired of dealing with the rape, murder and mayhem of his job. In the back of his mind, he revels in learning what made his aunt tick. His parents forbade him to see or spend any time with her in Ashland Colorado. As he approached the years of retirement, he decided to go on a vacation to feed his willingness to learn more about his aunt.
The main theme of Lost Souls is the classic battle of good against evil. Mike builds a crew to fight against something unnatural, evil and hard to overcome. He meets up with Harold Otterman, a man that dressed as if he was still in 60's. Mike unraveled a huge amount of murders that occurred in the 80's. All with the same signature of an X carved in their forehead. It was up to Mike and his crew to determine the true meaning of X. Mike and Harold are on a mission to figure out what the X represented.
As Mike finally shut the book on the Legacy of Lost Souls, they travel back home to finally enjoy a normal life with his wife Nancy. He and his crew spent several years of defeating Jack the Ripper at every pass. Is it really over? Will Jack find a way to come back once more? Mike pondered the possibilities.
After months of investigation, Mike and Harold come to conclusion of the case. They determine that a serial killer from the early 18th Century of England found a way to become immortal by carving an X in each of the victims with an ancient dagger. It sucks the soul from the victim into it and gives immortality to the possessor of the dagger. Is this really the infamous Jack the Ripper back to terrorize and cause mayhem to the world?