"Suddenly, it caught her eye. Unnoticed before was a worn, leather-bound book resting on the mantel above the fireplace. Somehow knowing that this was her reason for returning to the house, Amanda rushed forward and snatched it from its perch."

Amanda Casey is forced to move with her family from San Francisco to a small rural community in northern California the summer before her freshman year in high school. On the weekend before the start of the new school year, Amanda makes a shocking discovery. Inside an old house in the woods, she finds a corpse and an old book that is full of...