Fiction/Ghost "Who's that kid?" "What kid, sweetie?" "That kid, right there. See? In that window way on top. He's waving." Jesse smiled her biggest company smile and waved back. "Nobody here but us chickens," Nora laughed. "You're imagining things." When Nora and Ted decide to leave New York City and return to New Milford, Pennsylvania, they have to come to grips with their past and build a new future together. It's not easy, and they are happy that Jesse, their five-year-old daughter, has an invisible, make-believe friend in the toy room to distract and entertain her. But what if the friend isn't really invisible, or really make-believe? As Nora fights the recent past that haunts her, she is haunted by another past-the past of the boy in the toy room. Is Nora losing her mind, or is there a chance that Jesse's friend is very, very real?

"If Deidra Shay had known she was dead, she might have made different choices. But that's the nice thing about not knowing you're dead-it doesn't really worry you that much-not at first, anyway." When her best friend, Jesse, finds her body and is pulled away screaming and crying, Deidra follows her home--and all hell breaks loose. Friends and family are pulled into a maze of love and sex, revenge and redemption as Jesse and Deidra struggle to figure out how to go on living, after waking up dead