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Lia, a teenage girl from a lineage of courageous Southern women, inherits Graymoss, a Louisiana plantation house steeped in history and rumored to have survived a Civil War attack. When her family moves into the house, Lia learns it is haunted by a malevolent entity. Armed with clues from an old diary and Edgar Allan Poe tales, she sets out to uncover the nature of the evil lurking within the walls. Lia must decide whether to confront the ghost’s vengeance or find another way to keep her family safe, discovering her own courage in the process.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon
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