Rebecca isn't too pleased about being uprooted from her stylish New York City life, and transplanted to the middle of New Orleans. Sure, she'll be living with her aunt and cousin in the famous garden district, but what about all her friends, her school, her life? But it's not like she has a choice: her Dad will be working in China for a few months, and that means she has to go.
The Garden District shows no signs of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, but Rebecca begins to suspect that something even more destructive lies beneath the old money attitudes and southern manners of the girls and boys at her exclusive new private school. They hang out at night in the creepily elegant Lafayette cemetary, and there's talk of centuries-old curses and murder.
No one will tell Rebecca anything about what's going on, though they all seem to know something: so when she meets a honest to goodness ghost in the cemetary, she takes the opportunity to ask a few questions of her own. Pretty soon, Rebecca is caught up in the resolution of the curse...and she's far more involved than even she realizes.
A spooky and atmospheric tale that includes a fair amount of really interesting history about race relations and the foundation of fabulous city of New Orleans.
Suspense
Grades 10-12
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