High Stakes is the second book in Meg Cabot's thrilling The Mediator series, followed by Mean Spirits, Young Blood, Grave Doubts and Heaven Sent.Suze's new life in California is pretty cool. There are the pool parties, the new friends, and the fact that the hottest ghost in history happens to live in her bedroom. But when a screaming spirit appears at the end of her bed, Suze is thrown on to the trail of a murderer. All the clues lead to the freaky father of Tad Beaumont, the cutest boy in school . . . and the only guy who's ever asked Suze out. Not only is her potential beau's dad probably a killer, but he also seems be some kind of vampire. No one said that life as a mediator was going to be simple. But this is getting ridiculous . . .