Blue Sargent, the only non-clairvoyant in a family of clairvoyants, sits in the isolated and abandoned churchyard with her Aunt Neeve on St. Mark’s Eve where her aunt watches the soon-t0-be dead walk by. Then she sees a boy! Blue Sargent, non-clairvoyant, sees a soon-to-be dead boy! “Get his name,” Neeve commands. Blue asks the boy his name. “Gansy.” Why could Blue see him? “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve, Blue. Either you’re his true love,” Neeve said, “or you killed him.” Gansy and Blue meet. Blue finds herself drawn to Gansy. Gansy attends Aglionby, a local private school in Henreitta. He’s a Raven boy. Gansy and his friends, Ronan, Adam and Noah, are on a quest. Blue is caught up in their quest all the while knowing that within the year Gansy will be dead.
