Heather Despair Book One: Mortals

The night Heather's brother Sam disappeared, he warned her of THINGS in the junkyard. Now she's dealing with an onslaught of weird paranormal phenomena: apparitions. Trance writing. Blue electricity from her fingertips. It's so out of control, the geeky paranormal investigators club at school has noticed. They agree to help her find Sam--but she has to show them the ghosts.
Then Heather encounters a strange boy in the junkyard--Emmett, who moves across the junkyard with the flick of a spider, who gathers up the blue electricity with the twirl of a bident--and Heather begins to wake up to where she belongs. Like her spiritualist father who died, burned by a spirit's curse, she faces a future of wrangling ghosts. And to find Sam, she'll have to trust Emmett to escort her to the spirit world--Ciudad del Muerto, City of the Dead--where she will become the protégée of a master spirit, and the connector of worlds--a medium.