Perry, Adam

After their parents' deaths, siblings Liza and John Carroll are placed in the care of their uncle, a traveling con artist who scams the grieving with fradulent spirit photographs, until they arrive at a Spiritualist commune where the barrier between the living and the dead is very thin.

"Amateur magicians Duncan and Emma are forced to come clean to police about their involvement in their small town's biggest disaster, which all started when they discovered that legends about the local witch might actually be true"--Provided by publisher.

A pair of book collectors infiltrate the mind of ten-year-old Oliver Nelson, the last person to read a rare recently destroyed book, which thrusts Oliver into the story where he helps the characters reach the ending before the collectors steal it.