17-year-old Melissa Lowery's life is falling apart. She's failing physics, shunned by the cheerleading squad, and crushing on her best friend, Aaron, who has an annoyingly beautiful girlfriend. Oh yeah, and she sees the ghost of her dead father. Talk about screwed up. But soon, an eccentric neighbor named Seth turns Mel's crappy life upside down. A fellow ghost seer, he convinces her to test her abilities in a haunted cabin in the woods where he introduces her to a whole new world. Literally.
He teaches Mel that her ability also allows her to slip into the realm the ghosts come from—a vivid, euphoric place called "The Veil" that sure as hell beats Jaxonville. There, Mel finds an escape like she's never experienced before. But it could be a permanent escape; every time Mel slips into the "ghost high," it gets harder and harder to leave. And when the living in town start going crazy and the dead start whispering about a mysterious being called The Shadow Man, Mel realizes that the Veil may hide more secrets than she realizes... secrets that she must uncover before it's too late.