Neely and her little brother, Grub, sneak into the deserted Halcyon House in spite of the rumors that it is haunted; but when the owners suddenly return, she is warned to protect her brother.
After her elderly caretaker Ira has a heart attack, twelve-year-old Asia begins seeing a ghost and worries about losing the only family she has ever known.
After a car plunges over a dangerous cliff, killing its four teenage occupants, one of the four returns as a ghost, tormented by guilt and wishing somehow to prevent another tragedy.