Fourteen-year-old Dylan Reynolds is anything but happy when his parents decide to move the family to Traverse City, Michigan. Suddenly friendless and angry, Dylan decides to run away from home, and has a chance encounter with a traveling hypnotist. The hypnotist, a pompous man who calls himself Dr. Dark, is more than willing to show Dylan forgotten details about his past. But Dylan's world is turned upside down when he recalls a memory of himself when he was a baby, seated next to another toddler who looks exactly like him. Confronting his parents, Dylan learns that he was born an identical twin, and that his brother, Derek, drowned when they were little. Dylan is shocked by the news, but is even more shocked when Derek's ghost suddenly begins to appear in his bedroom each night, eager to bond with the brother that had long forgotten him. However, Derek isn't the friendly ghost Dylan assumes him to be. As Dylan learns more about his dead twin, he quickly realizes he's missing a crucial link in his brother's story-a link darker than anyone can imagine...