The Ghost of Caroline Wald
is a paranormal coming of age story involving murderous ghosts, grave robbing, and the general struggle of Frankie Johns to come to grips with being eighteen.Frankie Johns is a newly minted 18-year-old, and he stretching his adulthood muscles by going camping on a little island in the river, in spite of his mother's insistence that he not do it. He manages to cross the river to the island without drowning, and sets up camp on the island. A storm is rising, and his mother gets his friend Dan to go down and get him and take him home for the night.
The next day he sees a girl standing in the window of an abandoned house. He figures that the girl must be a ghost, which he discovers is true when he goes there and meets her. She convinces him to dig up her grave and take her diary out of the casket. Thus is set in motion a series of events that brings young Frankie in conflict with his parents, the cops, his best friend, and a few other people along the way.
He learns a lot about himself and others, and what wine goes best with a little crow.
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