When a practical joke at a Christmas party results in death, Reenie and her friends decide to hide the body but find themselves the object of ghostly revenge.
Sixteen-year-old Delia is more eager to play a manipulative dating game than to adapt to her new school, but then she finds that she has a personal connection to the ghost said to be haunting the school.
In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.
Presents over twenty stories about ghosts in the Martha's Vineyard area of Massachusetts, all purported to be true, including one involving the 1969 Ted Kennedy/Mary Jo Kopechne auto accident on Chappaquiddick Island.
In 1998, Koichi joins a new middle school and a mysterious new class where he meets a beautiful classmate named Mei. However, soon students begin dying, and Koichi learns that his class is under a deadly curse. He tries to uncover the truth about the curse before it kills him as well.
When Tess transfers to New England's premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max but Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, Becca, and Becca's ghost is not quite ready to let him go.