num_pages: 388
description: When sixteen-year-old poetess Fiona OMalley leaves her Grandmamas care in New York and travels to attend Wyndriven Female Academy in Reconstruction-era Mississippi she has a good deal to worry about. After all for all of her nerve and outspoken nature she has never been good at making friends. But with her new servant Bridey at her sideand a darkly endearing stranger who joins them on the trainFiona sets out to find her own life all the while hoping to leave the spirits she has been seeing behind her.Fiona finds the atmosphere of Wyndrivens ancient abbey home daunting despite her best efforts. For a girl who can see spirits the monstrous buildingwith its long history and many secretsalso holds the lives of all those who have lived there. And died there.To Fionas delight she does make good friends with the other girls as well as with the spirit of an attractive eighteenth-century gentleman and the charming estate manager. However Fiona finds herself tested as the deeper secrets and mysteries of Wyndriven surround her. Will she be able to help those who truly need her? What will become of their livesand their soulsif she is unable to overpower the mysterious evil that refuses to die?
language: English
title: A Place of Stone and Shadow
publisher: North Loop Books