It's never wise to talk to strangers...and that goes double when they're
dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice.
Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro
station--she never knows where she'll encounter a ghost. These mental
hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and
psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life.
When a chance touch leads her to pick up the insistent spirit of a girl
who was brutally murdered, Anna is pulled headlong into a deadly
conspiracy that extends to the highest levels of government. Facing the
forces behind her new hitcher's death will challenge the barriers, both
good and bad, that Anna has erected over the years and shed light on her
power's origins. And when the covert organization seeking to recruit her
crosses the line by kidnapping her friend, it will discover just how far
Anna is willing to go to bring it down.