This book tells the story of three young people in Sweden who all have different but troubled lives. Anon is a 6th-grader who is bullied relentlessly at school. Zarah works at a daycare but she hates kids. She has a very troubled relationship with an abusive boyfriend but she doesn't seem to want to leave him. Nils is the oldest; he is twenty-one and obsessed with death. For example he has himself shut in a coffin, and temporarily buried underground.
16 year old Evan McAllister's rich dad never gave him any money, afraid Evan would become a spoiled brat. So desperate for some money, Evan steals stuff from his dad's company to sell online. Then his dad is wrongly accused of a murder. Evan could clear his name but only if he reveals his own crime. Unwilling to face his dad's punishment Evan decides to find the real killer but gets involved in the dangerous world of international crime in the process.
After their mom dies of cancer, Shane and Aimee Lancaster's dad decides it's best for the family to leave Boston and make a new start elsewhere. He accepts a job in the small town of Sleepy Hollow, New York. But from the time the Lancasters arrive in town, strange things begin to happen, events that seem to have no explanation outside the supernatural. Sleepy Hollow has always been a town of legend and myth, but now it seems that those legends are coming alive. And when an apparently headless horseman begins murdering people in town, Shane and Aimee begin to fear for their lives.
