Charlotte lives in a beautiful mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean. She's surrounded by old, beautiful things, and old, beautiful clothing, but Charlotte lives in it alone, the object of envy. People think her parents are always vacationing in Europe. They think she has the perfect life. But she's so lonely. And she's been dead for almost a century.But when the horrifying death of her best friend, a new romance and her first love suddenly converge, Charlotte becomes the subject of a dark bargain that might give her the only thing she's ever coveted-the chance to be human again.