When Olivia Andreas goes to an auction with her friend Jamie Finch, she doesn't expect to bring home a ghost A professional records organizer who starts every day with a "To Do" list and is always on time for appointments, Olivia is not a believer in the paranormal or even an afterlife. In fact, she never glances at her astrology in the newspaper (even though she's a perfect Virgo). But on a whim, she buys a silver frame and decides to keep intact its photo of a smiling blonde woman whose curious collections were sold that night. Soon afterwards, a series of strange events completely upsets...

Brigit Barrasford, a lovely young woman haunted by voices and visions outside the bounds of ordinary life, struggles to come to terms with her unusual powers in a romantic adventure that spans the late 1930s through World War II. As a lonely child growing up on the Isle of Man in the care of an unloving aunt, Brigit turns to her imaginary friend Michael for companionship. When Brigit immigrates to America in her teens to live with an uncle in Boston, she feels as if she has left Michael behind forever. But when she begins to work with psychic researchers, Michael emerges as her control,...