Author(s): Elsbeth Edgar

Young Adult

Laura Horton pretends a lot of things but she can't pretend about her house, an old, rundown Italianate villa that rises in faded and dominating splendour above the small country town in which they live. To everyone at school, Laura Horton is just the girl from the haunted house. Everything changes with the arrival of Leon Murphy, a loner with a dark and tragic past. With Leon's help, Laura discovers there is more to her house than meets the eye...