The fork in the road -- The pale boy -- The house by the cemetery -- Tomorrow -- Alex -- Ghosts -- Mysteries -- Maggie's story -- Dreaming -- Birthday wishes -- The only gift that counts -- The search for a stone -- Truth and lies -- The rest of the story -- One giant step -- Signs -- The tree -- Into the magic -- The house of Alex Cordez -- Into town -- Mom -- Night searchers -- Homecoming -- Pieces of the puzzle -- To tell the truth -- Hidden treasure -- Inside the vault -- Not that kind of tree -- Back to the garden -- A tiny twig -- A final gift.

Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.