Author Description

"I shoved the clothes aside and my heart skipped another beat. A staircase. I knew without looking-those narrow stairs led to the attic..." It's 1943, and young Sara Grace LeBeau is sent across town to live with a great-aunt she's never met, while her father, a former Detroit Free Press reporter, covers World War II in Europe. Her mother has died, and Great-Aunt Blanche makes it clear that Sara Grace is an intolerable burden. The young girl soon discovers the woman's creepy old house-with its mysterious attic footsteps, puttied over keyholes and a secret staircase-harbors a secret buried deep in her great-aunt's southern roots.