"chilling and spooky old fashioned ghost story"
Paul and Penny Mason spend the summer in their home in
Mercy, North Carolina trying to patch up their marriage
and
help their thirteen-year-old daughter Elsie heal from a
trauma she went through a year ago. Paul is a best-
selling
author of children's books and had been a professor at the
Woodlands, but was fired for having an affair with one of
his students. Penny is working hard at trying to forgive
him but is spending more of her time in Chapel Hill doing
surgeries than staying at a lake house that is making her
increasingly uneasy. Penny has vivid dreams of the people that lived in the
town
in 1932 and the tragedy that occurred in her home. Elsie
sees the ghost of Mary who is looking for her own husband
and child. Paul is the only one who can speak to Mary but
he doesn't understand why she is haunting his home. Elsie
and Paul research the history of their home but it is
Penny
who finds out the answers that Mary needs to move on after
her purpose is finished. Donna Boyd has written a chilling and spooky old fashioned
ghost story about two worlds in time and space that
temporally connect so that members of one family can
interact with the surviving member of the other family who
needs to discover the truth about her past. The
characters
are all victims and survivors who must find a way to move
on from the tragedies that have affected their lives.
Readers will really enjoy THE AWAKENING and appreciate the
wonder that is so much a part of this stirring tale. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted June 9, 2003
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