[2] On her first day of junior year Suze is horrified to find that Paul Slater is now attending the Mission Academy, having moved to town to care for his ailing grandfather.

Furious, Suze runs away and is picked up by Neil, who drives her home, but during the trip, Craig takes over the wheel, nearly killing them both.

At school a few days later, Father Dom informs Suze that Jesse will be moving out of her room to the Mission's rectory, leading her to believe that their relationship is over.

After hearing this, Suze runs to the mission's cemetery and meets Jesse once again, who admits that he distanced himself from her because he thought she deserved someone living.

Deborah Stevenson of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books praised Cabot's "flip and fluffy tone" but found the Paul subplot unconvincing.

[4] Kirkus Reviews, while praising Cabot's humor, wrote that "Suze’s repetitious obsessing gives the material a padded feel, and the perfunctory plot barely hangs together.