Chloe Saunders use to have a relatively normal life; loving aunt, great friends and attending one of the best Art Schools in Buffalo, but now her life is beginning to resemble a horror movie, monsters and all.  Chloe is seeing ghost and not the nice and normal transparent kind, but ghosts with serious agendas and they all are awful chatty, especially when word gets out among the spirits that Chloe is able to listen.

Naturally, Chloe freaks out when she is chased by a janitor with horrific burns, becoming hysterical when she is caught and held down by her teachers. Admitting to her Aunt Lauren she has been seeing ghosts wasn’t the smartest thing to do since claiming to see and talk to the dead gets you in whole lot more trouble.

Convinced that Chloe is mentally unstable her aunt sends her to Lyle House; a ‘special’ group home for troubled teens. There Chloe meets others with problems like hers; mysterious problems that don’t fit with the diagnoses the doctors want to label them with. Turns out the people who are sent to Lyle House don’t have mental conditions; they are all Supernaturals; scorers, witches, necromancers, and shamans. It’s up to Chloe and her friends to figure out the secrets behind Lyle House… before its skeletons come back to haunt her.

Kelley Armstrong mixes supernatural drama with a whole lot of action packed conspiracy. The Summoning has an underlying sense of eeriness throughout it, waiting to burst through for the exhilarating ending.