The Girls and the Ghost

Written by Eileen Biltmore

Book #2 in the The Manor Mysteries series

Two cousins searching for a hiding place stumble onto a haunted wing full of secrets.

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160 pages· ~700L· AR ~4.5

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Thea Beekman can't wait for her cousin Peggy to visit America for her twelfth birthday, when Thea will receive the heirloom Dorothea locket. But news of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination brings talk of war, and Peggy is ordered home. Thea knows a wing of Beekman Manor rumored to be haunted where Peggy could hide, and there the girls find a hidden passageway and family secrets that could change everything they believed.

From the publisher

Two cousins' search for a hiding place in the family manor turns into a spooky discovery in this second book in the cozy historical fiction The Manor Mysteries series that follows two heirloom lockets through generations of the same family. Thea Beekman can't wait for her cousin Peggy to visit America and be there when she receives the heirloom Dorothea necklace on her twelfth birthday, as is custom for every girl named Dorothea in the extended Linden family. But the trip is cut short when news arrives of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. With talk of war on the horizon, Peggy is ordered to return home, but Thea knows the perfect hiding place to help her stay. A wing of Beekman Manor is rumored to be haunted, and as the girls explore, they find a hidden passageway and a trove of family secrets. What they find might change everything they thought they knew about their great-grandmothers.

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