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At the close of June 1914, new‑twenty‑year‑old Kate celebrates her twelfth birthday with her cousin Beth Etheridge, who arrives from England’s Chatswood Manor to Rhode Island’s Vendermeer Manor. The visiting girls are excited to share the family heirloom necklaces—Kate’s ruby‑encrusted “Katherine” and Beth’s “Elizabeth”—which resemble each other like a two‑half heart. Their reunion, however, is interrupted when news of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination reaches the couple; war‑time tensions prompt Beth’s parents to send her back home. Determined to keep her cousin safe, Kate points Beth toward a secluded wing of the manor that locals say is haunted. There, amidst the dusty corridors, the girls find a different kind of ghost: a trove of long‑hidden family secrets revealed in the house’s hidden chambers.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Adele Whitby
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