Everyone knows the legend--Greene Island is cursed. 17-yr-old Hardy Vance doesn't care about curses. All he wants to do is graduate from high school and head to college on the mainland. But Hardy has a knack for finding trouble. When he gets stuck doing community service with a girl that has a secret, their lives quickly become entwined in a murder mystery that leads straight back into the island's dark past and the dreaded Curse of Viola. It's up to Hardy and the supernatural abilities of his friends to uncover the horrible truth using the only clue left behind. A dandelion...

Hardy is beginning to expect the unexpected. He can see dead people, after all. But when the spinning wall of light opens up on the whiteboard on his first day of class at Ellery University, his worst nightmare becomes a reality--someone in his class is dying, and he's the only one who can do something about it. Then there's the girl with the red hair and striking green eyes. Emma. She's way out of Hardy's league, yet she's planted herself next to him in class. Was it just him, or did she feel the same strange connection between them? When students at EU start getting sick, fate quickly...