"We all have our little gardens of dead dreams, don't we? And sometimes we still try to water and tend those gardens, long after we should know nothing will ever grow there."
In this installment of the Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper series, the team is sent to investigate a potential haunting at an antebellum mansion in the middle of the countryside. A pair of sisters currently reside there because the previous owner, a deceased reclusive professor, hired someone to transform his massive collection into some semblance of organization. The oldest sister Cherise is a university student who is cataloguing the entire collection. The issue is, it's a collection of ancient and medieval manuscripts and items. The library and mansion are filled with terribly haunting spirits-both helpful, lost, and frightening. Even when exploring the grounds they come across an eerie family cemetery in the overgrown woods and run into a figure trying to communicate something serious to them. Ellie and the team have to get to the bottom of the library and figure out how to make the house safe once more.
I'll say this again, almost verbatim, every new addition to this series is scarier than the last! Filled with scripts about raising the dead, possession, the lengths the professor went through to ensure that he would be re-united with his wife is frightening. Once again, the banter between the team is perfectly paced and in the right places at the right time. Always letting a moment of laughter come through before the next scare occurs. Even though the mansion is obviously beyond scary, a part of me wishes I could tour it. In the daytime...with other people. I can't wait to dive into the next in the series and hope they don't stop coming!
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