Ten year old May doesn't want to be here. Not at home, in the rural West Virginia part of America, where she is shunned by her school-mates - that looks a lot more peachy than it ever did - but where an encounter with an evil spirit and a lake at night in the first book of this trilogy put her. She now wanders the world of The Ever After - a star many light-years from Earth, inhabited by the dead of the world. A bit odd when she's still alive.