As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...

Charlie St. Cloud's life has been haunted by the ghost of his younger brother, who was killed in a car wreck that Charlie managed to survive, and when a beautiful young woman enters Charlie's life, he must choose between the past and the possibility of the future.