I was twelve when I realized I was a ghost.So says Constance Fairchild, an eccentric poetess who is heiress to a fortune and a girl who, from an early age, has believed that she had been reincarnated.Orphaned at the age of 14, when her parents die under suspicious circumstances, she is sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, a country that had haunted her dreams. Here, she makes her first real friends and stumbles on clues to her past life. When several of her friends die under suspicious circumstances, Constance has reason to believe that her legal guardian may be responsible. Searching desperately for answers, Constance only uncovers further questions that convince her that she may be part of some grand conspiracy. Spanning two lifetimes, this conspiracy involving pieces of the puzzle that Constance must strive to unravel through her instinctive knowledge of virtual reality, cryptography, and the Internet threatens to destroy everyone she knows and loves.