House That Spelled Her Name

When sixteen-year-old Mara Kerr moves with her family into the neglected house at the end of Briar Lane, she believes the place is only another punishment in a year already filled with loss, debt, and disappointment. The house is cold, damp, and unwanted, with dead ash trees behind it, a locked cellar beneath it, and a village full of people who look away whenever its name is mentioned. Then Mara ...