Suze, whose father died when she was six, moves from New York to Carmel, California after her mom's second marriage to Andy Ackerman, a carpenter.

She gets three stepbrothers, Jake, Brad, and David, whom she nicknames Sleepy (a senior), Dopey (a sophomore like Suze), and Doc (a seventh grader).

However, when Suze arrives at her new home, she finds a handsome, archaic ghost named Jesse de Silva sitting on her window seat.

Suze hopes to start fresh in California, with trips to the beach instead of the cemetery and sunbathing instead of tending to lost souls.

The next day, Father Dom is unhappy with Suze's attempt to deal with Heather alone and the damage it has caused to the school grounds.

Several days later, Heather attempts to kill Bryce again, and is barely stopped by Father Dominic; both men are injured in the process.

Furious, Suze returns to school that evening - ignoring Jesse's warnings - and performs a voodoo exorcism, successfully sending Heather to the afterlife.

However, as she is exorcised, Heather causes the school breezeway to collapse on Suze, who is knocked unconscious and barely saved by Sleepy and Doc.

• Father Dominic - a priest who is also a mediator and sees dead people, and the director of the Junípero Serra Mission Academy, the Catholic school where Suzanna studies.

• Bryce Martinson - A boy who studies at the Junipero Serra Mission Academy, he is a love interest of Suzanna Simon, after the death of his ex-girlfriend Heather Chambers.