The Ties That Bind

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everyone wants to be seen for who they really are.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>14-year-old Zoey Thompson is no exception. Problem is no one does. At least not since the death</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>of her dad two years ago. Everyone seems convinced she's either some tragically sad lost child or a troubled</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>kid hurtling down a dark and dangerous path. Whatever the reason nobody wants her around anymore.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Not even her own mom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Enter Zoey's great aunt and uncle. They've got a big old Victorian with tons of room and are happy to take Zoey</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>off her mother's hands. It doesn't matter that Zoey hardly knows them or that they live three states over.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She doesn't have a lot of other offers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her new life is going as smoothly as can be expected until strange things start happening around the house.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It would be easy to write them off as quirks of an unfamiliar setting if not for Aunt Carol's insistence that there are</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>spirits all around us.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Is it possible that the only person who can recognize Zoey for her true self is someone that no one else can see?</span></p>