Ross Wakeman comes to Comtosook to stay with his sister and her son after he quits his jobs as a television film crew ghost hunter, a job he took a few years ago, after his fiancé, Aimee was killed in a car accident, in the hope that he could find her spirit. In Comtosook there is a land dispute between the Abenaki Indians and a developer, the Indians claiming the land is a burial ground and preventing development on it. Meanwhile there are strange and unexplainable phenomena happing in the town. Many old wounds and hidden stories are exposed in Comtosook throughout the novel for all to see.
This novel is very different from all the other Picoult novels I have read. It is not written in her traditional "one character point of view per chapter" style, but rather as a standard novel. The story itself is also very different as it does not really cover a moral dilemma but is instead a bit of a mystery mixed in with a find-your-true-self novel.
I found myself enjoying this novel more than I have enjoyed any of her other stories and would have to classify it as my favourite.
