An unhappy spirit is in Grandview that Melinda Gordon hasn't been able to help cross over. When the self-acclaimed spiritual consultant Wendy King comes to Grandview she forces the spirit to cross over which then releases an evil, unyielding spirit that beings to reek havoc on the people of Grandview.
"A magnificently crafted story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and Morgans...A novel brimming with wisdom on subjects as diverse as writing for money, solid marriages, and academic promotion policies--with page after page of the superb descriptive writing that has been a hallmark of his work from the start and with a marvelous extended family of unforgettable major and minor characters."--back cover.
In 1913 New York, a young Harvard graduate set to inherit a fortune from his grandfather marries and embarks on a life of alcohol and indulgence, assuming that he and his wife will soon be wealthy, but falls into self-destruction and despair when the money does not come through.
When Saul is assigned to teach a remedial writing course, a troubled student develops an odd fixation on him and and his wife, Patsy, leading Saul to question everything about his life.
The lives of three people in a nineteenth-century provincial community become entwined as crusader Dorothea Brooke is prevented from being with the man she loves, the idealistic Dr. Lydgate succumbs to materialism, and religious hypocrite Bulstrode tries to hide his past crimes.
Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie; and includes the novella "The Touchstone," and three additional short stories by Edith Wharton.
