Libby Beresnier, an eight year old girl living in Caleford, south east England, can talk to the dead and can see a hazy, yet coloured, version of 'ghosts' lingering in the land. The problem is, she's only a child, and she doesn't know how to handle or who to trust with this power. Will she live happily or wil she be taken for granted by those who use her?

At eight years of age, she basically trusts everyone and has no sense of loathing or emnity. So unwittingly she is duped and taken for gran ... more »

Libby Beresnier, an eight year old girl living in Caleford, south east England, can talk to the dead and can see a hazy, yet coloured, version of 'ghosts' lingering in the land. The problem is, she's only a child, and she doesn't know how to handle or who to trust with this power. Will she live happily or wil she be taken for granted by those who use her?

At eight years of age, she basically trusts everyone and has no sense of loathing or emnity. So unwittingly she is duped and taken for granted when her twisted stepfather finds out her secret, and starts exploiting her, asking her to ask the dead who killed them in his cases so he got promotions and much more money. As Libby gets older, she does realise this, but is it too late? One strand of the web had touched another, a long time ago, and the pattern grew and grew until it was almost unescapable.

Can Libby escape? And can the dead possibly ... help?  Less