A Place of Stone and Shadow

When sixteen-year-old Fiona O'Malley leaves home_to attend Wyndriven Female Academy in Reconstruction-era Mississippi, she has a good deal to worry about. But with her new servant, Bridey, Fiona hopes to leave the spirits she has been seeing_behind her.Fiona finds Wyndriven's ancient abbey home daunting, despite her best efforts. After all, the monstrous building holds the lives of all those who have lived there. And died_there.To Fiona's delight, she makes friends with the girls, as well as the_spirit of an attractive eighteenth-century gentleman, and the charming estate manager._However, she is tested by the deeper secrets and mysteries of Wyndriven. What will become_of their lives and their souls if she is unable to overpower the mysterious evil that_refuses to die? A bit supernatural tale, a bit murder mystery, and a bit romance, A Place of Stone and Shadow is the latest lush, haunting, and layered story from the author of Strands of Bronze and Gold and The Mirk and Midnight Hour.