Don't tell a soul
(Book)

Kirkus Review - Adult,110120

Publisher's Weekly,111620

School Library Journal,,010121, p. 77

"People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weak, and young women are its favorite victims. In Louth, they're called the Dead Girls. All Bram wants is to disappear from her old life, from her family's past, and from the scandal that continues to haunt her. The only place left to go is Louth, the tiny town on the Hudson River where her uncle, James, has been renovating an old mansion. But James is haunted by his own ghosts. Months ago, his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The tragedy has left James a shell of the man Bram knew?and destroyed half of the house he so lovingly restored. The manor is creepy, and so are the locals. The people of Louth don't want outsiders like Bram in their town, and with each passing day she's discovering that the rumors they spread are just as disturbing as the secrets they hide. Most frightening of all are the legends they tell about the Dead Girls. Girls whose lives were cut short in the very house Bram now calls home. The terrifying reality is that the Dead Girls may have never left the manor?and if Bram looks too hard into the town's haunted past, she might not leave either."

14-up.

10-12.

680,Lexile.