"I hate that frizzy freak!" is all Beau Delacroix thinks about his lab partner Petra Pines, the new girl in town who unwittingly ruined his chances with the hottest girl in class. What Beau doesn't know is that Petra Pines isn't just a freckled klutz with bad hair (as he would put it) - but a girl struggling to control her ability to bring dead things back to life. Beau's simple teenage life of nudie mags and high school sports is about to get real weird.