Lucas can’t accept Doc’s disbelief, and he joins others in the dark ritual they believe is their only hope. Doc amputates a leg as easily as he pulls a tooth, yet when it comes to consumption, he remains powerless, unwilling to try the cure he calls nonsense. Unable to manage the family farm by himself, Lucas finds work as an apprentice to Doc Beecher, doctor, dentist, barber and undertaker. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only he had listened to news of a strange cure for this deadly disease. Lucas is grief stricken and filled with guilt. Cynthia DeFelice, a master of suspense, succeeds once again in creating a ghost as credible as any of her ‘real’ characters, in a story as meaningful as it is entertaining.Ī Matter of Life or DeathIt’s 1849, and twelve year old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. Hobbs, and through her friendship with Dub, that jealousy can indeed be a monster. And as the vengeful ghost begins to threaten people, including Allie’s little brother, Allie discovers through her relationships with The Ghost and Mrs. Little does she know that what the ghost wants is not peace but revenge. Allie means to understand the connection, and to help the unsettled ghost find peace in the hereafter. Her friend Dub Whitwell decides she must be a ‘ghost magnet.’ Somehow, the new ghost is connected with the school’s fearsome cafeteria lady, Mrs. Just a few weeks after making it possible for the police to capture Lucy Stiles’s killer with the help of Lucy’s ghost eleven year old Allie Nichols is visited by another disembodied voice.

Sequel to The Ghost of Fossil Glen, winner of the Texas Bluebonnet Award.

Weasel by Cynthia C. DeFelice