THERE WERE TOO MANY OF THEM. THEY WERE ALL CLOSING IN. — A passenger plane falls from the sky. Dead people are everywhere. Only Cole Sear can see them -and they all want something from him. — One little girl survived the crash. But she lies in a coma, suspended between this world and the next. — It's up to Cole to help her. Only then will he solve the mystery of Flight 333. But first, he has to listen - and do what they ghosts want. No matter what.

When his best friend Jason's older brother, Ted, runs away, Cole Sears, the boy who can see the dead, knows it has something to do with a burned man who died in a plane crash.

It was long ago, but not so far away. In fact, it happened in the very building where young Cole Sear goes to school. Hundreds of years ago, it housed a courtroom, a prison, and a gallows. Occasionally, innocent victims were hanged; some haunt the school still, seeking out the person who may be able to clear their names. But unraveling history's darkest mystery may lead Cole into the kind of danger no one can protect him from.