This book is about a teenage girl, Leigh Baxton, whose mother died. The story starts at Leigh's mother's funeral.

Leigh’s Mom is dead, and Leigh is afraid that she is going to come back. And not in a good way. In a scary way that Leigh is terrified of. Strange things start happening in the graveyard, and before long Leigh has to decide if she is willing to give up everything. It doesn’t help that she might be falling for a mysterious boy, and her best friend's brother takes a sudden interest in her.

Main character, Leigh, has just lost her mother. As if that isn't enough, on the day of her mother's funeral, she sees the ghost of a cheerleader. Now, on top of grieving for her mother and trying to play a maternal role for her younger sister, she has to make sure that her mother won't come back from the dead, like Sarah the cheerleader did. When in the cemetery, she meets Tram, a seventeen-year-old without parents, who warns her not to give gifts to the dead and isn't exactly what he seems like at first glance.

The book the Grave Winner was about a girl named Leigh whose mom had died. While she was at her funeral she thought she saw a ghost of her classmate come back from the dead. Leigh soon thought if she buried some of her mother's favorite things in her grave she wouldn't come back. While she was burying the "gifts," she was warned by someone named Tram to not give gifts to the dead.