Life turned sour for Janet Marie Simpson the day she agreed to cut school and join the gang on Senor Bunk Day. What could be nicer than a cruise across Lake Champlain on a beautiful summer day? How could they have known that the motor would conk out, that they would have to spend the night on a tiny, nameless island in the middle of the lake? For Janet, her parents' punishment-indefinite grounding-is only the beginning. The dreams and the blackouts are far worse. Blackouts that leave her weak and exhausted. Dreams that always end up in a graveyard. Then Janet begins to understand that an old evil is trying to escape from the place where it has been imprisoned for so many years. Is Janet a victim, or is she the vehicle of doom?