The Ghost Road

Ruth has always spent her summers on the road with her father, but this year she is sent to Newfoundland to live with relatives she has never met. She quickly learns that the island is nothing like Toronto. The locals are warm and welcoming, yet they hold firmly to old beliefs in ghosts, in a family gift called The Sight, and in curses that pass down through the generations.

Her cousin Ruby is staying there too, and the two girls find more in common than they expected. Both lost their mothers when they were two, both are the same age, and both love the same foods. Their outlook on the world is very different, though. Ruby is sure that spirits and fairies are real, while Ruth trusts science and hard evidence.

When the girls come across unsettling inscriptions on gravestones in the local cemetery, they begin digging into their family's past. They uncover a troubling pattern: every generation produces twin girls, each set of twins dies young, and their children are left without mothers. One twin in each family has The Sight and can perceive the Ghost Road, which leads to Slippers Cove, a lost settlement. As the mystery deepens, Ruth is also visited late at night by a ghostly presence she cannot explain. The answers, if they can be found, lie somewhere along the Ghost Road.