Karen DeSonne is ued to pretending to be something she's not. All her life, she's passed as a normal all-American teenager, with her friends, her family, and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen's dead, she's still passing--this time, as alive.
Meanwhile, Karen's dead friends have been accused of a high-profile murder, causing a new round of anti-zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale's undead into hiding. Karen soon learns that the "murder" was a hoax, staged by Pete Martinsburg and his bioist zealots. Obtaining enough evidence to expose the fraud and prove her friends' innocence means doing the unthinkable: betraying her love by becoming Pete's girlfriend. Karen's only hope is that the enemy never realizes who she really is--because the consequences would beeven worse than death.