While surfing the Internet with the intention of contacting her friends, Chloe researches necromancy at Derek's suggestion, learning that necromancers raise ghosts from the dead. Tori, stricken, stays in her room, and Peter is released from Lyle House. As the situation is being explained, Chloe passes her hand through her, and begins to suspect that Liz's ghost appeared to her, meaning that she would be dead. Liz is transferred that day, but Chloe sees her that night, with Liz apparently unaware of her transfer. However, it goes horribly wrong, with a picture crashing down on Chloe and the nurses discovering. That night, Chloe is woken by a fearful Liz, who believes that she has a poltergeist- hence the pencil throwing- and convinces her to help with a seance to ward it off. Rae and Chloe talk more, and she learns that Rae supposedly is a pyromaniac the two quickly become friends.
Wang, who threatens to have her transferred, and quit teaching the children in the house.
Liz is later accused of throwing a pencil at Ms. Gill, who diagnoses her with schizophrenia. After her first day, Chloe visits the psychiatrist Dr. Each teen is assigned chores and does their regular schoolwork independently, so while doing laundry one day, Chloe encounters another ghost. Derek, as she soon learns, is extremely quiet, often frightening her, and Tori (who has an unrequited crush on Simon) does not get along with Rae very well, although she and Liz are best friends. While unpacking, Chloe meets her roommate, Liz, a sixteen-year old, who introduces her to the others, Tori, fifteen,Rae, sixteen, Simon and Derek, foster brothers, both sixteen, and Peter, an eighth grader. And together they discover that Lyle House is not your usual group home either.Ĭhloe ultimately sees a ghost, with his face almost completely melted off, and begins screaming, running, and attacking a teacher accidentally, culminating in her being removed from school and locked up in Lyle House. But as she gradually gets to know the other kids at the home–charming Simon and his ominous, unsmiling brother Derek, obnoxious Tori, and Rae, who has a “thing” for fire–Chloe begins to realize that there is something that binds them all together, and it isn’t your usual “problem kid” behavior. After she suffers a breakdown, her devoted Aunt Lauren gets her into a highly recommended group home.Īt first, Lyle House seems a pretty okay place, except for Chloe’s small problem of fearing she might be facing a lifetime of mental illness. Chloe starts seeing ghosts–everywhere, demanding her attention. But when puberty does hit, it brings more than hormone surges. Her biggest concern is that she’s not developing as fast as her friends are. She is attending art school, pursuing her dreams of becoming a director, making friends, meeting boys.
The question is, whose side are they on? it's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House.before its skeletons come back to haunt me.Īfter years of frequent moves following her mother’s death, Chloe Saunders’ life is finally settling down. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me. I don't even know what that means anymore. My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.Īll I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary.