When Ike Grantham paid her for her graphic design work with a run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore, and then disappeared, Tess found herself with much more than a weekend project. It's not just the rumors that the house is haunted. It's the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly, her reclusive babysitter, and her father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door.
Available only in Americana 4 & 5.Haunted House or a Murderer.. This is my First Negger read and I will read more of hers . The Carriage House is supposed to be haunted , and Tess (who reminds me of Queen Latifa in this story ) finds a skelton in her basement but at first she is not convienced what she saw so she don't call the police right off , In the next day or so a friend conviences Tess she should call the police but by then someone has removed the skelton from the basement , You have a politicians wife trying to protect the wrong man , and that man is in love with Tess and then you have the politician that will do anything to get his spot in Washington . The carriage House is given to Tess for a job she did for Ike and Ike has disappeared . Tess finds skelton in basement but is it Ike or is it ? Tess also falls for her next door neighbor that... Sorry you got to read this story to find out the rest :)