For Ages
8 to 12

A twisty, terrifying ghost story about twelve-year-old Lily, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her.

Lily's new house is a real nightmare. . . .

Lily Horne is a drama queen. It's helped her rise to stardom in the school play, but it's also landed her in trouble. Her parents warn her that Florida has to be different. It's a fresh start. No theatrics. But this time, the drama is coming for her.

The Hornes' new house is awful. The pool is full of slime, the dock is rotten, and the swamp creeps closer every day. But worst of all, the house isn't empty . . . it's packed full of trash, memories, and, Lily begins to fear, the ghost of the girl who lived there before her.

And whatever is waiting in the shadows wants to come out to play.

An Excerpt fromMine

1.
Lily Horne was dying.
Literally dying.
Okay, maybe not literally.
But very, very theatrically.
“This is the end!” she gasped, swooning as much as her seat belt would allow. “World . . . going dark. Can’t breathe . . .”
She took a moment to try out various moaning and gagging sounds, making sure she had the absolute attention of her audience, before naturally pivoting into the dramatic death that always made her cry.
“I was aiming for the sky,” she sang, low and questioning, following it up with a sputter.
“Oh God, no more Hamilton,” her mom moaned.
With a final gasp, Lily went rigid, eyes flown wide in shock and terror, then exhaled and let her bones melt so that her body went limp and unnaturally twisted, held up only by the constricting seat belt. Waiting for a reaction, she kept her breaths completely silent, her chest barely moving--a trick she’d learned from a video by a corpse actor on YouTube--a guy who actually got paid to pretend to be dead. A…

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