Table of Contents The New House 9 Dominoes 20 Accused 30 Kitchen Table Conference 44 The Reporter 52 Run 59 The Gravedigger 70 An Appearance 78 Strange Breakfast 88 Unexpected Help 95 Here We Go Again 105
CHAPTER ONE The New House With every crack of lightning Jamie’s shadow was thrown against the wall Lightning lit up his room for a split second before it was covered again with a blanket of darkness Outside the icy night wind swirled around the graveyard whistling through the gravestones and running down the old dirt track past the trees to the house at the bottom of the hill storm had knocked out the power a couple of hours ago leaving Jamie his younger sister Paula and his father Andrew fumbling around their new house in the pitch black falling over unopened boxes and Inside the house was in total darkness The 9