Kerri Swanson is the twelve year old daughter of Kat Harvey and a politician named Billy Swanson. Kerri lives in Friendship, Maine, in a Street called Dallas. When visiting her best friend, Harry DePhilippi, he dares her to enter a supposed haunted mansion called Whipstaff Manor. Kerri has no idea her grandfather lived there, but was nearly scared to death when she realizes the rumours were true.