What if your best bud OD'd on drugs? What if his ghost told you that YOU were next? Heroin is no longer the vice of the inner city. Drug abuse is rampant in the suburbs. Take Dean Summers. He's seventeen, a high school senior, an athlete, and an A student. He's also a drug user: chiva (black tar heroin), crystal meth, and bud. Kids buy drugs on campus and sniff it in class. When the ghost of his best bud, Pauly, (he OD'd on drugs) comes back to warn him that he's next, Dean's not convinced that it could happen to him. He doesn't have a drug prob, he insists. Even when he's told he has cancer, he can't quit using drugs. His best gal pal, Michelle, tries to help him, but Dean won't listen to her. The drug has a stronger hold on him. He's hooked... CHIVA takes teen readers to a place they won't soon forget. It's based on a true story about redemption and the power of friendship that knows no earthly boundaries. And the love of a girl for a boy that is timeless.