Marika Kelly had a beaut of a day and that's just the start. A bus hit her and she wakes up a year later. Her librarian job is gone and her body doesn't work well. And now she sees ghosts. Secrets surround her and threaten her life. Secrets like the scream of the Banshee accompanied by the image of a man with evil eyes who hurts women; like the reason the police want to interview her; like her fear that she is going crazy; and Tetka, a ghost only she sees and talks to. Only Marika hears the Banshee, and fears others will declare her mental and lock her away. She feels that the man she sees when the Banshee screams knows about her and plans to end her existence. Her doctor places her in the care of his brother, a man who keeps a distance between himself and the rest of the world. The police want to know about the accident that she doesn't remember. Marika's own secret -- Tetka -- interrupts her attempts to recover. Tetka is the ghost of the brothers' aunt, who haunts him and who wants Marika to speak for her. She does not know why she hears the Banshee. She fears that the secrets that the brothers and Tetka have will determine if she lives, dies, or spends the rest of her life labeled as "mental" and confined in a hospital. The Banshee Screamed begins a series of books in which Marika faces ghosts and other creatures while seeking the answers to the secrets in her life and the lives around her.