Anna moves to New York from the midwest. She's a substitute school teacher by day and a medium by night. When Edward, an attractive but not very socially adept classical pianist, moves into her building she is quite annoyed that his constant practicing interferes with her communing with the dead. She also begins having a frequent visitor, Mozart, who adores Edward's playing, tells her to "be nice to him" and attempts to play matchmaker. As Anna begins to fall for Edward she holds back telling him of her psychic abilities because it has ended relationships in the past. Though Anna is not terribly likeable and the plot is predictable, the writing is light and often humorous, and the emotions of fear and loneliness easy to relate to.