After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie who only finds solace in books discovers a chilling ghost story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who loved her, and a peculiar deal made with “the smiling man”—a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Along with her friends, the clever yet innocent Coco Zinter and the kind and athletic Brian Battersby, she heads out into the forest and confronts the malicious and cunning smiling man.
