Death is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
Coming home from a Hawaiian vacation with her best girlfriends, Lucy
Fisher is stunned to find everything she owns tossed out on her front
lawn, the locks changed, and her fiancé's phone disconnected--plus she's
just lost her job. With her world spinning wildly out of her control,
Lucy decides to make a new start and moves upstate to live with her
sister and nephew.
But then things take an even more dramatic turn: A fatal encounter with
public transportation lands Lucy not in the hereafter but in the nearly
hereafter. She's back in school, learning the parameters of spooking and
how to become a successful spirit in order to complete a ghostly
assignment. If Lucy succeeds, she's guaranteed a spot in the next level
of the afterlife--but until then, she's stuck as a ghost in the last
place she would ever want to be.
Trying to avoid being trapped on earth for all eternity, Lucy crosses
the line between life and death and back again when she returns home.
Navigating the perilous channels of the paranormal, she's determined to
find out why her life crumbled and why, despite her ghastly death, no
one seems to have noticed she's gone. But urgency on the spectral
plane--in the departed person of her feisty grandmother, who is risking
both their eternal lives--requires attention, and Lucy realizes that you
get only one chance to be spectacular in death.
