Fun and a little hard work. That s all Tess Haviland had in mind when Ike Grantham paid her for her graphic design work with the run-down, 19th-century carriage house on Boston s North Shore.
Then Ike disappeared and now Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. It s not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—it s the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett and especially Dolly s father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door.
But when Tess discovers a human skeleton in her dirt cellar, she begins to ask questions about the history of the carriage house, the untimely death of Andrew s wife and Ike s disappearance. Questions a desperate killer wants to silence bef