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When sixteen year old Lucas Swain makes a new friend it's quite an event. Lucas doesn't make many friends. He prefers solitude and introspection. A new friend for Lucas is even more of an event when that friend is, well, dead. Lucas comes across Violet Park (deceased) in a cab office while on his way home. She resides in an urn on a dusty shelf in the controller's office, a piece of lost property, left in a cab some five years and never claimed. Convinced that Violet is trying to communicate with him, Lucas and his grandmother hatch a plot to rescue her from the cab office. And then the coincidences begin...