The book the Grave Winner was about a girl named Leigh whose mom had died. While she was at her funeral she thought she saw a ghost of her classmate come back from the dead. Leigh soon thought if she buried some of her mother's favorite things in her grave she wouldn't come back. While she was burying the "gifts," she was warned by someone named Tram to not give gifts to the dead. Leigh soon finds out what she must do to save her town from the evil sorceresses.