Belonging and peer pressure
Jamie accepts a cemetery dare because she wants acceptance from the “in crowd” at her new high school.
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Joanne Dahme - Author
A creepy supernatural adventure about belonging, dares and the past. Jamie’s attempt to enter a school’s “in crowd” leads her into a cemetery where ghosts appear to be performing and one seeks to claim her as a replacement daughter.
In order to be accepted by the "in crowd" at her new high school, Jamie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jamie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jamie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jamie quickly discovers that they aren't actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery. When one woman decides to adopt Jamie to replace her lost daughter, our heroine fears she may never escape the cemetery. Full of rich history and filled with a cast of ghostly characters, the third eerily descriptive novel from Joanne Dahme is just as creepy as her first novel Creepers.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA creepy supernatural adventure about belonging, dares and the past. Jamie’s attempt to enter a school’s “in crowd” leads her into a cemetery where ghosts appear to be performing and one seeks to claim her as a replacement daughter.
Jamie accepts a cemetery dare because she wants acceptance from the “in crowd” at her new high school.
A ghostly woman wants to adopt Jamie as a replacement for her lost daughter.
Be ready for sustained cemetery-based fear, ghosts and the threat that Jamie may not escape. The lost daughter element may also bring emotional weight; pause if the supernatural family situation becomes unsettling.
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