The main character is Theo, an unhappy girl with a single mother who acts like a teenager, makes Theo dance on the streets of Vancouver for money, and is more interested in her new boyfriend than in her. Suddenly, while on a ferry from Vancouver to Victoria to live with her aunt, Theo finds herself in a new family, the Kaldors - a perfect, wonderful family with 4 kids, and they completely accept her as one of them. A dream? But it goes on and on for months. Then slowly it begins to fade, and she is back on the ferry, and begins another new life with her aunt and thought that is was all a dream when they went on a tour of Victoria and found out that all the things that happened are all little parts of her childhood memory pulled into a story. She finally meets with the ghost, Cicely, who is trying to write a book and somehow as Cicely tries to write, it is actually happening. She never wrote the book because it was all so perfect so she threw it away and that is why she began to fade. T