
Melinda Gordon is a young woman who can communicate with the earthbound spirits of people who have died -- and who seek her help. She uses it to relay significant messages and important information to the living, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. As a result the spirits' survivors often question her ability. But when she helps both the souls who contact her and those who are still alive, she knows that her talent is more asset than liability.
When a traveling carnival comes to town, Melinda encounters the spirit of a vengeful magician, who thinks his death during an underwater stunt was not an accident, but the work of his jealous brother.
Melinda helps find justice for the ghost of a black man killed in the 1970s in a fight with a white co-worker.
After chilly spirits visit her, Melinda realizes that a jetliner is going to crash; Melinda faces her biggest challenge yet.
Melinda must contend with crash investigators and an evil spirit when she tries to help hundreds of confused passengers killed in a jetliner crash.