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

I’d do anything for my 6-year-old brother Max. Protecting him is all I’ve ever known how to do, especially with things at home being as … well, crappy as they are. So when he goes missing after tee-ball practice, my world implodes.

I’d do anything to get him back. Anything. Then this girl I barely know corners me at school saying she knows where Max is. Her source?

A ghost.

Yep. A ghost told her.

Some psycho kidnapped my brother and wants to use him as a human meat suit for a spirit he wants to raise from the dead. Suddenly I’m dragged headfirst into the world of the dead and find out my boring hometown is full of ghosts I had no idea existed. With the help of that medium who talks to spirits, my honor roll boyfriend who looks like he might puke every time we break a rule, and the school’s resident bad boy who has this ridiculously punchable smirk that I can’t seem to stop thinking about, I need to solve the mystery of who this necromancer is and where he’s keeping Max before he can begin the ritual. The necromancer has big plans for more people he wants to raise from the dead. If we don’t end this … Max won’t be the last kid murdered by this creep. The deaths are only beginning.

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