Will gets involved with The Order, a group consisting of ghost-talkers like himself, as he continues to help spirits into the light, while Alona, his vain, self-centered, and cranky spirit guide begins to learn the value of helping others.
Ghost-talker Will and his cranky spirit-guide Alona Dare, who is still trapped in the body of Lily Turner a month after being hit by a bus, consult a psychic in their continuing effort to separate Alona's spirit from Lily's body.
Homecoming queen Alona Dare is killed by a bus and realizes the only person who can see her ghost is Will Killian, an outcast who does not like her, and together they must figure out how to get along to prevent Alona from fading away and a evil spirit from killing Will.
At sixteen, Ariane Tucker has been careful to elude those seeking her since her escape from a genetics lab ten years earlier, but the attention of classmate Zane, both frightening and intoxicating, tempts her to risk violating at least one of her adoptive father's five simple rules.
Will gets involved with The Order, a group consisting of ghost-talkers like himself, as he continues to help spirits into the light, while Alona, his vain, self-centered, and cranky spirit guide begins to learn the value of helping others.