DON’T TELL A SOUL

An atmospheric ghost story with a feminist soul. A great read for gloomy winter days when the snow keeps falling and shadows take on a life of their own.

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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 wanted was to disappear—from her old life, her family's past, and from the scandal that haunts 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 earlier, his beloved wife died in a fire that people say was set by her daughter. The tragedy left James a shell of the man Bram once knew—and destroyed half the house he’d so lovingly restored.

 The manor is creepy, as are the locals. The people of Louth don’t want outsiders like Bram in their town. The rumors they spread are as disturbing as the secrets they hide. Most frightening of all are the legends they tell about girls whose lives were cut short in the very house Bram now calls home. 

As Bram soon learns, the Dead Girls may never have left the manor. And if she looks too hard into the town’s haunted past, she might not ever leave, either.