When Alma Peretz, freshly graduated from college and reluctantly back in her quirky Florida hometown, bumps into the last person she ever wanted to see-her high school English teacher and unrequited crush, Rachel Adler-her plan to quietly rebuild her life starts to unravel like a poorly carved jack-o'-lantern.

Alma has never quite lived down the sting of confessing her feelings to Rachel on the last day of senior year, only to be gently but firmly turned away. Now, in a small city where everyone knows everyone, avoiding her is almost impossible. The coffee shop, the bar, even the corner store seem haunted by Rachel's presence.

When her old best friend dares her to finally face the town's infamous tradition-spending one night in the supposedly haunted Harrington House, a rite of passage she'd always chickened out of-Alma reluctantly agrees. After all, she's determined to shed her fears and start fresh. But when she shows up at the doorstep with shaking hands, she finds Rachel already there... confessing she never braved the house either.

Forced to endure creaking floors, flickering flashlights, and maybe more than one mischievous ghost, Alma and Rachel must spend the night confronting both the supernatural and the unspoken tension between them.

Alma might realize the only thing more terrifying than Harrington House is risking her heart again. And this time, Rachel might just be ready to meet her halfway.