Fork in the road -- Pale boy -- House by the cemetery -- Tomorrow -- Alex -- Ghosts -- Mysteries -- Maggie's story -- Dreaming -- Birthday wishes -- Only gift that counts -- Search for a stone -- Truth and lies -- Rest of the story -- One giant step -- Signs -- Tree -- Into the magic -- House of Alex Cordez -- Into town -- Mom -- Night searchers -- Homecoming -- Pieces of the puzzle -- To tell the truth -- Hidden treasure -- Inside the vault -- Not that kind of tree -- Back to the garden -- Tiny twig -- Final gift.
Summary
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.