After having clawed her way back to life, Maddie is haunted by visions, and driven by her unfinished business. Meanwhile, her bestie, Simon, is stuck in the purgatorial state that exists in Split River High. He becomes obsessed with uncovering the school’s secrets: chiefly, why have so many perished at the campus? And what has Mr. Martin, the ghosts’ longtime mentor, been hiding? The closer Maddie, Simon, and their pals get to the truth, the more questions they unearth – and the more peril they put themselves in …

After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.