To a necromancer, the dead aren’t gone—they just need a new body.

Shiloh Oleson loves her six-year-old brother more than life, so the headstrong teen’s world shatters when he goes missing after tee-ball practice.

When Shiloh is approached by a classmate who claims to know where the little boy is, she's ecstatic. That is, until she finds out that there is something seriously weird about how her classmate got this information:

A ghost told her.

Shiloh is forced to confront a horrifying truth: her brother has been kidnapped by a necromancer who wants to kill him and use his body to bring back another boy’s ghost. With her brother's sacrifice drawing close, Shiloh teams up with her quirky classmate who can see ghosts, her brainy boyfriend, and the school bad boy to find her brother before the ritual is complete.

Someone is going to have to die to save the boy. Who’s it going to be?

“Fraise has outdone herself in not only creating a gripping plot that keeps the pages turning, but also crafting something that feels original and new. All in all, this is one of the strongest books I came across in this competition, and it deserves every bit of its strong reception.” — Writer’s Digest