Review: Riveting!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2013
First things first! The Amazon information says this book is 39 pages. Not so!! It has 31 lengthy chapters and an epilogue.It is a totally engrossing book. I read it first as a short story before Heather fleshed it out into a novel. The story was good. The novel is great!I started it last night. I meant to read a few chapters but I kept clicking for the next page LOL. I finally stopped at 4:30 a.m. Then I finished it tonight.It's about a haunted house. This girl & her family - mom, dad, several siblings - move into grandma's old house in Florida that has been left to them. They moved from Kentucky. The girl hadn't been to grandma's house since she was four. Grandma always came to them every year but no one knows why. Anyway, it is a spooky old house with a bloody spot at the foot of the stairs that comes back if it's cleaned up and sometimes actually seeps blood. They find that the attic had been slave quarters and the ancestors that had kept slaves had chained the slaves to the wall beside their bunks at night. There's footsteps & moans and groans and so on. Sue finds an old cemetery and she & the sister that is with her see an intruder but he disappears before the dad can get from the house to them - and it's a straight path. The youngest girl - she's 8 - has a ghostly Annalise for a friend who is always hiding so the man with the rope won't find her and kill her. Sue, our heroine, meets a cute young guy that is caretaker for the plantation down the road that gives tours and  such. He & she find a hidden staircase that also goes to the attic but it's not the same attic that was the slave quarters. It (the story) has a Florida hurricane even. Something must be done or they'll not be able to keep living in the house.I don't want to spoil the story for you. If you enjoy this genre of fiction, you cannot go wrong with this ones. It's one of those that you get into to the point that you are *there*! Heather says that while the people in the story are fictitious that it is based on a true story.