Visiting for the first time on the family farm, fourteen-year-old Annabel gradually unravels a mystery involving a crying cat, an abandoned house, a fortyyear-old feud, suspicions of murder, and her own grandparents.
In the north woods of Wisconsin following a forest fire that destroys their town in 1871, 17-year-old Mary James forms a new respect for her older sister.
Thirteen-year-old Kirsty, confined to a wheelchair by a car accident, finds herself living with a new stepmother and stepsister in a strange old house formerly inhabited by a witch who wants it back.