Mellie shares an ability to see and interact with ghosts with her mother, which comes in handy when an infant's skeleton is found in the foundation during renovation work, an event that seems to awaken violent intentions in at least one of the many ghosts who live in her historic home. Mellie is reconciled to single motherhood and has a posse of people around her to help, including her until-recently estranged parents, her best friend, and Jack's teenage daughter, Nola. Newly pregnant, she has broken up with the father, Jack, a local best-selling novelist, since he won't tell her he loves her.

Mellie is sinking a fortune into her inherited mansion in Charleston, S.C., while trying to convince herself that she hates old houses. JanuRealtor and psychic Melanie Middleton is facing single motherhood in a haunted house she refuses to admit she loves, but it seems her pregnancy has awakened some malevolent feelings in at least one of the ghosts who shares her home. But can she seek Jack’s help without risking her heart? For in revealing the secrets of the past, Melanie also awakens the malevolent presence that has tried to keep the truth hidden for decades. That is, until the remains of a newborn buried in an old christening gown are found hidden in the foundation of her house.Īs the hauntings on Tradd Street slowly become more violent, Melanie decides to find out what caused the baby’s untimely death, uncovering the love, loss, and betrayal that color the house’s history-and threaten her claim of ownership. She simply does not have the energy to deal with one more crisis. When Melanie is roused one night by the sound of a ghostly infant crying, she chooses to ignore it.

Despite an insistence that she can raise their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives.

She misses him desperately, but her broken heart is the least of her problems. Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack Trenholm’s marriage proposal. But history has a tendency of catching up with her, whether she likes it or not. In the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, Charleston realtor Melanie Middleton is determined to leave the past behind her.

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