Sixteen-year-old Lacy Brink, surprised to find herself dead and buried at Baltimore's Westminster Cemetery, recruits fellow poets Sam and Edgar Allan Poe in resisting tyrannical Mrs. Steele's rules by having an open mic night. When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, she's confused. Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, has the job of teaching her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression, a punishment worse than death. Every soul is obligated to perform a job, and Lacy is given the task of providing entertainment. She proposes an open mic, a poetry jam that becomes a chance for the cemetery's residents to express themselves. Can she entice Edgar Allan Poe to give it a try? -- adapted from jacket.