One night, after Heather attempts to kill Bryce, Suze sneaks out to the Mission to try and talk her into moving on, but Heather misconstrues her meaning, harbouring the false hope that she might get her life back. When Heather's old friends - including Bryce - begin to show interest in Suze, Heather claims Suze is taking over the life she had, and ignores all attempts to placate her. Suze refuses, saying that she has done this job her whole life and is not going to change. Father Dominic, the school principal and a fellow mediator, is surprised to learn that Suze uses physical violence to subdue ghosts like Heather, and insists that she should use friendlier, more peaceful methods of mediation. On her first day at the Junipero Serra Mission Academy, however, she is immediately faced with the angry ghost of Heather Chambers, the student whose place she took: Heather had committed suicide when her boyfriend Bryce Martinson broke up with her. Suze hopes to start fresh in California, with trips to the beach instead of the cemetery and sunbathing instead of tending to lost souls. Irritated, she tells Jesse to move on or find some other house to haunt, as now she is living there, but he refuses. However, when Suze arrives at her new home, she finds a handsome, archaic ghost named Jesse de Silva sitting on her window seat.

She gets three stepbrothers, Jake, Brad, and David, whom she nicknames Sleepy (a senior), Dopey (a sophomore like Suze), and Doc (a seventh grader). Suze, whose father died when she was six, moves from New York to Carmel, California after her mom's second marriage to Andy Ackerman, a carpenter. Every day, she is haunted by the fact that they will not leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. However, her job is not easy, as not all ghosts want to be guided. Suze spends a lot of time directing the usually unhappy dead to the afterlife. Sixteen-year-old Susannah 'Suze' Simon is a mediator, which means she can see and talk to ghosts. Its alternative title is Love You To Death. It is the first part of The Mediator series. Shadowland is a young adult novel written by author Meg Cabot and published by Avon Books in 2000.

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