Alyson Prescott moves to Cutter's Cove, Oregon, after being placed, along with her mother, in the witness protection program. She is forced to leave her old life behind and become a middle-class girl, living in a middle-class town. Alyson struggles with the duplicity in her life as she strives to reconcile her new life with the old.

In "The Secret", Alyson and her mother buy a dilapidated old mansion on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Alyson soon finds that the house holds a secret that only the recently deceased resident of the property seems to know the answer to.

In "The Curse", two Seacliff High students turn up missing just days before Halloween and Alyson begins to suspect there may be more going on than the adults in town would like to believe.

In "The Relic", a ghost leads Alyson to a treasure map days before Thanksgiving, she enlists the help of her friends to follow the clues. As they dig into the century old mystery, they discover a legend regarding a relic that many believe once possessed life sustaining power.

In "The Conspiracy", the annual Christmas Carnival is in town and Alyson has a potentially fatal accident. The gang is convinced that someone is out to make sure they don't discover the cover up that runs so deep that even highly respected town residents are involved.

In "The Grudge", Alyson and the gang head to a ski resort where they stumble across a body in the snow. When they realize that the body is one incident in a series of unusual occurrences, they decide to throw a little sleuthing in with their holiday plans.

In "The Shadow", Alyson witnesses a man pushing a woman off the cliff onto the rocks below, she calls the police only to learn that the body of the victim cannot be found.

In "The Haunting", Alyson decides to pay a visit to the mischievous ghosts who are causing such a ruckus only to find that the ghosts who live there are not at all who she expected to find.