While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
Relates how Red River Renata and Whizbrain Wallerbee use his invention, the ice box railroad car, to retrieve the sunken treasure jealously guarded by the ghost of Fearless Bones Kelly.
Fortunately for the Whittakers and the noisy ghost in the beach cottage they rent for the summer, their personal quiet ghost Georgie comes along on the vacation.
Kendall's used to interacting with dead people--but when the ghost of her crush's mother keeps talking to her from beyond the grave, even Kendall gets confused.
Three friends and the librarian in a Massachusetts town must help each other to free the ghosts that have been imprisoned in books by a professor on a fantastical island many years ago.