"He shouldn't look. He knew that. You should never look into the face of the uncanny, but had he ever been able to turn away? No, he'd courted it, begged for it. He had to know. He wanted to know everything." Galaxy Stern isn't like other girls. She sees ghosts. Dead souls that linger on this side of the veil longing for a sense of what it is to be alive again. Seeing ghosts makes life difficult for Alex. So difficult that she runs away as a teenager, searching for ways to escape and numb her mind. It's not much of a life and Alex wakes up one day in a hospital bed to find out all of her friends have been brutally murdered and the dean of Yale has a tempting offer. A chance at a new, normal life. All she has to do is use her ability to see ghosts to work for Lethe society, a Yale organization that keeps the other societies in check. In return she can be a Yale student. She can start a new life. Ale...