Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series.
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With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie€s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother€s pressure to €˜go public€ with her talent€"a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem.
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Her name is Nola, Jack€s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father€s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack€s mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse€"a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola€s reserve and draw her into the family she€s never known.
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At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted€"until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in€"with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that€s drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness...