Leila, an ambitious and brilliant student determined to cure cancer, is murdered during her final semester of college in a mass school shooting. Yet instead of moving onto the next life, she discovers she's been reborn as a spirit resigned to haunt the school of her death, possibly forever. Lost and alone, she searches for answers to the ultimate question: Why?Alejandro, a listless and depressed freshman determined to reinvent himself after eighteen years of awkwardness, is lost within the motion of new faces and challenges of college life. He searches for something or someone that might make him feel happy again, his sense of worth and faith profoundly shaken due to a devastating family tragedy.The two meet under the auspice of a cloudless, moonlit rain, and Leila discovers that Alejandro might be the only person in the world who can see her. Alejandro immediately falls for her breathtaking beauty and the two become fast friends. Before long, their friendship quickly deepens into a romance as they find themselves passionately, irrevocably intoxicated with each other.Leila discovers her body reawakening with sensations that make her phantom body feel alive again, and Alejandro finds a kindred spirit who understands him like no one else has before. The impossible lovers begin to dream of finding a way to hold onto their own private miracle, forever.Their miraculous relationship quickly proves problematic. How can Alejandro explain to disapproving friends and skeptical family that his soul-mate is a ghost? Why does Leila get the nagging suspicion that their relationship is more than just happenstance, and that their love affair is part of her creator's larger purpose for her?These questions ignite once an unexpected act of evil befalls Alejandro, only to reveal in its aftermath the true meaning and purpose of their star-crossed romance. Will Leila and Alejandro's love allow them to embrace a profound destiny that surpasses the limits of time and perhaps even God, or is their love destined to die loud and young?