The new school year's only just begun - and already there have been some big surprises. And then Michael drops a bombshell. He has been accepted on a year-long computer science course ...in Japan! Can Mia's perfect prince really love her if he can go away for a year? And what would it take to make him stay?

Suze has been forced to get a babysitting job. She's pledged her heart to Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost ever. It's tough when you think you've found 150-year-old grave of the boy you love in your backyard. Suze knows it's dangerous to dig up the past, but how can she focus on babysitting when she could be close to discovering who killed Jesse?

Mia's got everything a girl could possibly want. She's a princess and she's got a boyfriend! But that's where it all goes wrong. Because Kenny is just not the guy she really wants. Michael's the one she's loved forever but he's going out with someone infinitely cleverer than Mia. Will the story end happily ever after for the Princess of Genovia?

Heather should be happy. She's finally got a boyfriend. On the down side, her boss, Dr Veatch, may be the most boring man ...But that hardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head. Can Heather find her boss' murderer, answer Tad's question, and get her landlord to realize that by letting her go, he's making the biggest mistake?

How can Mia bear it? Michael, her one true love, has gone away to college, leaving her to face a new school year alone (well, nearly). With a potential eco-disaster in Genovia, a new English teacher who can't stand her and a totally transformed Boris to get used to, life for the world's most reluctant royal is looking like it can't get much worse.

Suze should be on cloud nine. She's going out with Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost of all time. But, her fellow mediator, Paul Slater, wants Suze all to himself, and he's hell-bent on making the happy couple ancient history. When creepy Paul threatens to travel back in time and stop Jesse from dying, Suze is seriously spooked.

Poor Mia has made a total ass of herself with JP - the Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili - trying to prove that she's a super-chilled party girl. She's also bankrupted the student council. Just as Mia's scared that she's lost Michael and a ton of money, Grandmere steps in up with a fund-raising plan.

Suze's friend is visiting from New York. Suze wants to check out the cute guys down at the beach. Suze is hardly surprised when a fatal car accident wreaks havoc. The spirits of four high-school students are hungry for revenge. And if Suze tries to protect their target, she might find herself involved in a nasty 'accident' of her own.

Teenagers Emerson Watts and Nikki Howard have nothing in common. Em's a tomboy-braniac who couldn't care less about her looks. Nikki's a supermodel: the world's most famous airhead. But a freak accident causes the girls' lives to collide in the an extraordinary way - and suddenly Em knows more about Nikki's life than the paparazzi ever has.

Tommy Sullivan is back in town. Just about everyone hates Tommy for what he did four years ago. Even being seen around Tom would make Katie Ellison a social pariah - so falling in love with him would be the like the kiss of death. Could the biggest disaster of Katie's life turn into the best thing that ever happened to her?

Suze's new life in California is pretty cool. There are the pool parties, the new friends, and the fact that the hottest ghost in history happens to live in her bedroom. But when a screaming spirit appears at the end of her bed, Suze is thrown on to the trail of a murderer.

Suze loves ghostly Jesse but fellow mediator, Paul Slater, is determined to win her heart. And Paul knows how to blast Jesse to the Great Beyond. Paul promises he won't do anything to Jesse, as long as Suze will go out with him. Suze agrees. But now she's having grave doubts: can a girl really have a future with a guy who's already dead?

One of the New York College cheerleaders has lost her head - literally - in the Fischer Hall cafeteria, and no one can find the rest of her. With the entire population of the dorm under suspicion for murder, it doesn't look like anyone on campus, least of all Heather, who is starting night classes, is going to have a good semester.

Lizzie Nichols spends all her college graduation money on a trip to visit her long-distance boyfriend Andy in London. She just can't keep anything to herself, including her indignation at finding out her beloved boyfriend wasn't completely faithful to her during their separation. She's now out on the streets with no money.

When you peak at fifteen, where can things go but downhill? Former teen pop sensation Heather Wells has hit rock bottom. When Heather finds a job in a New York college dorm things seem to start looking up... at least until girls in the dorm begin to perish at an alarming rate.