When Christina de Silva, Susannah Simon and Jesse de SIlva's beloved daughter, finds out about her mediator abilities at sixteen, she befriends ghostly Austin Gregory, who apart from being the family ghost, seems to have a non-family connection to the De Silvas as well. Being new to mediation, Austin teaches Christina the exact things she has to do in order to resist pestering ghosts. In the midst of this, Christina falls, rises up and falls once again as different issues arise. But as Christina realizes what she feels toward Austin, she grasps the choice whether to live or to die. She then makes a decision that even her mother back then made. Will she let the greatest love she has go or will she die trying?