![]() As if that isn’t enough, she has also inherited the family “gift” The Sight, which let her see dead people. Her mother left her when she was just a baby, and nobody knows who her father is. ![]() Not only is Dee forced to deal with all this, she also has to handle being a social outcast. Dee’s grandmother – the local midwife and source of health lore – is an obvious target for the superstitious townspeople. ![]() Then another local girl is murdered, and the villagers, filled with suspicion and fear, start a witch hunt. The small rural community where Dee and her grandmother live is turned upside-down when the bones of a local girl is found, four years after she went missing. Set in Ontario, Canada shortly after World War I, author Barbara Haworth-Attard weaves an intriguing story of suspense, the paranormal, and coming of age. ![]() Murder mystery meets ghost story in this captivating tale of 14 year old Dee. Was that why the bones had been found now? Because the mountain was giving up its secrets along with its foliage?” – From the back cover of Haunted. There were secret places beneath the trees, Dee knew places of shadow and cool damp, revealed when the wind stripped away the leaves to lay the branches bare. “ The road was narrower here, close-packed red and white oak, sugar maple, and beech trees crowding right to the ditch. ![]()
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