The Medium and the Manuscript

A new enemy. An unbreakable secret. The cost of forgiveness. Celie and Rhys have successfully shielded the Bayou Bouffant from outside threats, but their Spectral Ward is useless against an enemy that strikes at the heart. When a development company threatens to dig up the site of an unmarked grave just outside the historic boundary, Gladys is plunged into terror. The source of her fear is Cordelia Maeve Dubois, a ruthless relative capitalizing on the house's fame, and the infamous medium, Madame Seraphina. Seraphina, who can bypass the Spectral Ward by manipulating Gladys's deep-seated emotional pain, is being paid to expose the truth of Gladys's death—a truth Gladys has kept secret for a century. Forced to keep the posse inside the Ward, Celie and Rhys must rely on Buzz's digital tracking and Elara's spectral photography to remotely gather evidence from the threatened site. The final battle is not one of law or logic, but one of the heart. To save her final resting place and break Seraphina's deadly psychic hold, Gladys must perform the ultimate act of courage: publicly forgive the sister who accidentally killed her and finally correct a painful historical wrong.