Susannah (Suze) Simon’s mom has remarried and moved from New York City to Carmel, California.  Suze leaves Brooklyn to join her television journalist mom, her stepfather, and three stepbrothers in Carmel.  Suze is your normal every day sixteen-year-old girl except for one thing.  She’s a mediator.  She can see ghosts, and it’s her job to help them find their way to wherever ghosts go.  Sometimes she needs to get a little rough with the stubborn ones.  Suze also has to keep this mediator business on the down low, so her family and friends don’t think she’s weird.  This is her chance to get a fresh start in California.  The Mediator is a series.  Shadowland, the first book in the series, introduces Suze to her new surroundings which besides her new school Junipero Serra Mission Academy, new family situation, and new friends includes Jesse, a fine-looking ghost that hangs around her house, and the recently deceased Heather Chambers.  Heather hangs out at school and is one angry, vengeful ghost.  Suze will have to use all her mediator skills to get Heather to crossover.