When a terrible accident alters her whole life, Raina Ashcroft is forced to move to Blightwood-a small town surrounded by mysterious withering trees. Adjusting to the changes in the new town is difficult enough, but-being the daughter of the cemetery's groundskeeper-she has to do it living next door to a graveyard. While investigating the Blightwood Cemetery one night, Raina meets Katherine Leslie-a recently deceased girl, who swears she is not a ghost, but something else entirely. At first, Raina is terrified, yet eventually becomes friendly with the strange specter. Before long, it seems...