The ice cradle
Subtitle: a novel from the ghost files
By: by Mary Ann Winkowski, Maureen Foley.
Contributors: Foley, Maureen.
Edition: 1st trade paperback ed.
Series: Ghost files -- 2
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780307452467
Subjects: Private investigators -- Fiction; Clairvoyants -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Sleepy Block Island seems just the place for ghost whisperer Anza O'Malley to find some much-needed peace and quiet. But with troubled spirits dead set on making their voices heard, rest is in short supply! February 1907, Block Island. Residents of this tiny Rhode Island community awaken to a scene of tragedy: During a midnight blizzard, a New York bound steamer carrying 157 passengers has been destroyed at sea. Volunteers rush to the beach to organize a search-and-rescue effort but for most of the passengers, hope is already lost. A century later, residents of the island are busy preparing for the summer season and debating the merits of a proposed wind farm near the beach. No one expects that those long-forgotten passengers may have something to say about the project, but the restless spirits are furious that their final resting place may be disturbed and turn to Anza to help them protect it. If spirit-world preservationists aren't enough, Anza also has to face the uncomfortable possibility that her five-year-old son, Henry, has inherited her gift. And then there's that handsome fisherman whose charms are proving difficult to ignore ..."--Page 4 of cover.