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Uprooted by her single mother yet again, this time in the dead of winter to an ancestral summer house on the New Jersey shore, thirteen-year-old Lily soon discovers that both the house and her mother's family are haunted by the past. Told from oddball perspectives, usually Lily's but sometimes one of several ghosts, this mystery is more witty than chilling, with a satisfying romantic subplot and a quirky protagonist.