Julia Bliss has to endure a semester living with her cousin while her parents try to patch up their marriage. Julia's cousin, Nikki, and her friends aren't exactly Julia's type. They hike into the hills one night and spot a guy from their class. He's a geek--an oddball. They follow Heath to an old cabin and, though Julia tries to stop them, they set fire to it. The cabin burns to the ground.

Heath Quinn couldn't have survived the fire. Or could he?

Horrifying things begin to happen. Threatening notes, harassing midnight phone calls, and then murder.

Did Heath survive the inferno? Or has he come for revenge, Back from the Dead?

Parade magazine's special young adult supplement React said that this book was "a roller coaster read."