Ewan Dart and his artist parents have just moved to Loch Treen, Scotland. They live in a stone house called Ninian House after a saint who once lived there. Ninian House is known to be peculiar. "It has a freaky habit of flickering in and out of different centuries." During one of the flickers, Ewan meets Elspeth, the ghost of a girl who died of diphtheria in 1937. She is in a stooshie - a Scottish way of saying she is in a state, agitated. Her cousin, Alex, who was known to be fey, (He knew "things the rest of us don't. You could call it a sixth sense.") had told her never to open the closet. Fear of the closet and what it might contain interrupted her passage into the afterlife. Can Ewan help Elspeth? This endearing tale, evocative of the Scottish Highlands and history, portrays the power of fear, hate, love, and forgiveness. A ghost story well worth reading.
"Perfect love is stronger than fear."
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