[Heather Despair 01] • Mortals

The night Heather's brother Sam disappeared , he warned her of THINGS in the junkyard. Now she's dealing with an endless onslaught of weird paranormal phenomena. Apparitions. Trance writing. Blue electricity from her fingertips. It's so out of control, the geeky paranormal investigators club at school has noticed. They agree to help her find Sam--but she has to show them the ghosts.

Then Heather encounters a strange boy in the junkyard--Emmett, who moves across the junkyard with the flick of a spider, who gathers up the blue electricity with the twirl of a bident--and Heather begins to wake up to where she belongs. Like her spiritualist father who died, burned by a spirit's curse, she faces a future of wrangling ghosts. And to find Sam, she'll have to trust Emmett to escort her to the spirit world--Ciudad del Muerto, City of the Dead--where she will become the protégée of a master spirit, and the connector of worlds--a medium.