The Séance

About This Book

Every ledger balances. This one's two hundred years overdue.

Lena Ashford doesn't believe in ghosts. She believes in guilt — which, eleven months after her little brother drowned in the river behind their house, amounts to the same thing. A séance was supposed to give her one more conversation with him. Instead, it opens a door. The medium's eyes go empty in her own parlor chair. A lullaby plays from an empty corner. And five strangers around the table start seeing exactly what they've spent their whole lives trying not to remember. Because Elias didn't drown by accident. He was paid — the latest installment in an arrangement two centuries old, one this valley's six founding families have never once called by its real name. Prosperity, generation after generation, purchased with a child nobody was allowed to mourn out loud. Now the debt has come due early, the ledger is missing, and the six people who sat at that séance table are the only ones left who know it. To close the door they opened, they'll have to do the one thing this town has spent two hundred years making sure nobody ever does: say every name, out loud, where the whole valley can hear it — before the river decides to collect the difference itself. The Séance is a novel about what a town will let itself forget, and what it costs the ones who refuse to.

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