12-year old Paris Pan and her family have just moved into a new house in a new town called Nowheresville, Oklahoma.  Little did they know that twenty years ago, a young lady named Beth took a dare and slept in the woods on the night of her thirteenth birthday.  Beth was never seen again, and two weeks later, her dead body was found on the Pan’s property.  Since then, as girls turn 13 in Nowheresville, their rite of passage is to “take the dare” and spend the night in the woods.

As Paris prepares to take the dare, is it her imagination, or does she hear voices coming from the property?  Where are the dolls coming from that the dog drags in? Is that Beth’s face that keeps appearing in Paris’ dreams at night?  Might Paris be clairvoyant?

The author’s tone has enough humor in it that the reader can be pretty certain this is no ghost story.  One-by-one the mysterious incidents become explained.  I was surprised by Asian author Cynthea Liu’s unconvincing broken English by Paris’ s parents.  Likewise, the stuttering of the character named Tom seemed poorly done.  But, I was proud of Paris’ stand on bullying at a time she was desperate to make new friends.