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Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Books We Love Publ Partners
ISBN-10: B00495XTNM
Copyright: October 27, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781926965048
Are Shadow, the grinning black cat, and Annabelle Coffinfinder, guardian of the crystal chandelier, the only lingering spirits in Mansion House, or are there more? When Kati Danson discovers her power of clairaudience, she decides to find out.
Kati Danson’s family spends every summer at Piney Lake, Michigan, but her parents have divorced, and her father is staying in their cabin with his new family. The only place available is a three-story house that belonged to Mr. Coffinfinder, a recluse who recently died. Due to a belief it’s haunted, the house is for sale, cheap, and Kati’s mom wants to turn it into a bed and breakfast. Fifteen-year-old Kati doesn’t want to live at Piney Lake year around, and she’s sure she’ll be a social outcast living in “weird Coffy’s house.”
Excerpt
Just what we needed—a June storm to herald our arrival at a hundred-year-old haunted house. Thunder rumbled through the village of Piney Lake, shaking our four-year-old van. Immediately following, lightning flashed, and Mom tightened her white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel.
“This has to be a bad omen,” I muttered, shivering within the lifesaving (I hoped) confines of my shoulder harness.
Pounding rain had formed ruts in the gravel road, and we bounced and splashed along treacherously. Water stood in the gutters and spilled over onto the sidewalks of the dozen or so buildings in the downtown business district.
We’d driven north for three hours from our Indiana home along sun-dappled roads, and the moment we reached our destination, bingo! The gods of bad weather were trying to tell us what I’d known all along. We were headed for disaster.
Mom rounded a corner, turned sharply into an uphill driveway, and I shuddered as we sloshed to a stop beside Wendell Coffinfinder’s house.
I couldn’t bear to think of Mansion House as ours, and it wouldn’t be if I had my way. But my mother had won the first round and I was condemned to two months of humiliation, living in a house everyone who ever summered here knew as Coffy’s haunted house.
I’m Kati Danson and my mother, Diane, has acted weird ever since Dad asked for a divorce last fall, but it wasn’t until last Friday, June 4, the day school let out for the summer, that I knew she’d gone totally mad.
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