Sixteen-year-old Angel is fed up living in a haunted house. For the resident spook - the infuriating good-looking, leather jacketed Billy J. Spatano, BJ to his friends - must be just about the most irritating kind of ghost imaginable. He criticizes Angel's choice of boyfriends, reads her diary and - worse still - fancies her best friend, Suze.

But as Angel digs into the past and discovers the real truth anbout BJ's dramtic death in 1959, she begins to sense that she has misunderstood BJ. Maybe she, Angel, is the one person who could finally help BJ find peace...