Stephen King’s novel Later may have only released last year, but already Blumhouse Television has landed the rights to turn it into a limited series and tapped Lucy Liu to star.

Raelle Tucker created the series and wrote the pilot script, having previously collaborated with Blumhouse on the anthology series Sacred Lies and Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones. Her other credits include work on Supernatural, Jessica Jones, The Returned, and True Blood, the latter for which she received an Emmy nomination.

King’s Later centres on Tia, a literary agency owner and single mum to her son Jamie, who finds herself on the brink of professional ruin when her star author client dies before turning in the manuscript that would have saved her agency from bankruptcy. Thankfully, it turns out that Jamie has a supernatural ability to speak to the dead, all of whom must tell him the truth. He talks with the dead author and feeds the contents of the book to his mother, who writes it herself and publishes it under the author’s name, to great success.

Things take a turn when Tia’s police detective girlfriend figures out what the boy can do and, in an act of desperation, drags him into a deadly case to help her stop a bombing. As always when King mixes kids with the supernatural though, Jamie soon finds himself in way over his head.

On the project, King stated that “I’ve wanted to work with Jason Blum for years, and now we have two projects together. Go, me!” The other project in question is an adaptation for Netflix of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a short story from the If It Bleeds anthology; Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell star, with John Lee Hancock directing.

Liu, meanwhile, will next appear in Shazam! Fury Of The Gods.