"A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April ... (more)
"A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan{u2019}s terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan{u2019}s teenage stepson, doesn{u2019}t help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it."--dust jacket. (less)