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By Lisa Polisar

it really is 1961, Grady, Oklahoma, inhabitants 103. Fifteen-year-old Jacob Leeds lives in a modest condominium on Hooper Circle. His international features a wily sister, provincial mom and dad, a grandfather named Woody, and an obsession with superheroes. Peel again one layer, notwithstanding, and discover a very varied Hooper Circle--one teeming with lies, a family members cover-up, and a mystery that might swap Jake forever.

The summer season of 1961 starts with a teenage initiation ceremony for Jake, introduced through his ally, Mikey Savage: "Initiation into Manhood--sleep on naked flooring within the outdated baseball diamond. No drowsing bag, no sneakers, no blanket." How tough may well it be?

Pirate songs and humorous tales accompany him within the darkness, till he hears the 1st of the screams. As he ways the sound, he sees an apparition of a tender lady, brutally crushed. He attempts to run away, yet unearths he is operating towards her. whilst Jake tells Mikey the tale, he learns the legend of Mary McCann--a murdered Grady woman who to at the present time haunts the Oklahoma prairie looking for her killer. For Jake, this sighting marks the top of his formative years and the start of his quest to discover the reality of her story.

"During a beastly-hot Oklahoma summer season, on a hard-scrabble farm, Jake Leeds makes the emotional trip from effortless boyhood to advanced youth whilst he uncovers a secret that issues to shattered truths and lovely secrets and techniques. Lisa Polisar's relocating tale and chic prose deliver energy and sweetness to an ages-old topic, turning The Ghost of Mary Prairie right into a modern masterpiece."--Pari Noskin Taichert, two-time Agatha Award finalist

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Lisa Polisar is a secret author, an award-winning journalist, a musician, and a filmmaker. She is the writer of Blackwater Tango, Knee Deep, immediately forward (nonfiction), and dozens of brief tales. Polisar has lived in New Mexico on the grounds that 1992. www.lisapolisar.com

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". . . an off-beat winner. . . ." -- The Courier-Gazette, Rockland, ME

"Polisar has woven into the cloth of this novel lots of hair-raising turns and emotional dips. . . . and he or she marvelously succeeds because the weaver." -- Albuquerque Journal

"This fast-moving novel is as gratifying as a favored secret mystery, yet with the extra complicated layers of literary fiction, giving one fodder for mirrored image and making it stress-free to every person who enjoys intrigue." -- historic Novels Review

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