Dani Argyle is a high school student whose best friend is a ghost-- the ghost of her father who has been missing for three years. Because her mother is overwhelmed with grief, Dani must fend for herself and her deaf younger brother.

Dani feels like she's fighting the world. Her peers do not accept her because she is overweight; her school is ill-equipped to handle an astute girl with ADHD, and the popular girls hate her for attracting the attention of the mysterious student from Japan. When everything about her life makes her feel confined and powerless, her only goal becomes dropping out of the institution that makes her feel stupid. But when Dani discovers that a psychic has been gutting her mother's finances, she finally has an adversary worth fighting.... if only she can control her own emotions long enough to out-con a con artist.