"A family mystery leads Dani Beans to investigate the secrets of Ole Miss and the dark history of race relations in Oxford, Mississippi"--

Twelve-year-old Max is determined to investigate the connection between a hacker's online attacks of her grandfather and other town officials and suspicious activity at the supposedly haunted Thornwood Manor, even though her grandfather, who is Blue Creek's police chief, wants to keep Max and her souped-up wheelchair out of police business.

Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.

The intertwining stories of three teenagers who find themselves haunted beyond imagining in the depths of a Kentucky mental institution.