For a boy who sees the deaths of everyone around him, it is almost impossible to keep friends. So when Carlos Mendez comes to Gulinger High, facing people who are cursed and hunted by the Mafia, he wishes had never been born.

And who can blame him. Almost all of his classmates are doomed to die tragic deaths, right?

That's what Carlos thinks until he meets Tom Brown and the gang. After all, those connected to Howard Richard Deacon III are in for an interesting future...one that can even defy death--or throw them in the middle of it.