Ages 9-11
In the second book, Beth travels across the Atlantic to stay at her cousin Kate Vandermeer's lavish Rhode Island mansion. But the trip is cut short when news comes in about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the possibility of war means that Beth is ordered to return home. Beth and Kate come up with a plot to hide Beth so she can stay for the whole summer as planned. Kate knows just the perfect hiding place: a wing of the manor that is rumoured to be haunted. Kate learns that there is no ghost, only to uncover something even more unbelievable: Someone who has been hidden away and who has a memory of the past and secrets that she's been keeping for generations . .
