In Downers Grove, the only thing worse than a hot-headed bully is the one without a head at all... Being an outsider at Downers Grove Middle School is hard enough. But as Bodie, Abe, and Odesa learn, things can always get a lot worse...and a lot creepier. When a vengeful, headless phantom begins to stalk them in the night, the three 12-year-old strangers must work together to confront a tragic past that mysteriously connects them all.