STATUS: Com­plete

Ever since seventeen-year-old Tessa James moved to Man­ches­ter, NH, she’s done her damnedest to ignore the rumors of ghosts in the the­atre next door. Even when let­ters in a for­eign language—and her own handwriting—appear. But then the acci­dents begin.

When Tessa real­izes the let­ters are from the diary of Ava Dubois, a run­away mill­girl turned ris­ing star­let, the con­nec­tions to the present become stark—and scary. Her employer, the Cas­tle The­atre, is about to pro­duce Ham­let, the very play can­celed by Ava’s untimely death in 1935. Bizarre acci­dents, per­fectly described in the diary, plague the the­atre staff and the steady stream of let­ters drive Tessa into a dan­ger­ous game. Hav­ing a long-dead diva take over her hands every night is def­i­nitely not her idea of a good time. She’ll do any­thing to get Ava to go into the light, even if it means hold­ing a dis­as­trous séance and anger­ing the homi­ci­dal pol­ter­geist in the boiler room. Unfor­tu­nately, she only makes the inves­ti­gat­ing detec­tive more sus­pi­cious than ever.

Now Tessa must make the let­ters stop—because each diary entry gets a lit­tle more real than the last. Not to men­tion the ris­ing body count. If Tessa doesn’t suc­ceed, she just might share Ava’s fate.