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__Dark Secrets: The Deep End of Fear__, by Elizabeth Chandler ISBN: 0689852592 ©2003 311 pages

Chapter one, where we listen to a scene from 12 years earlier, which helps explain why Kate is going back to the place they ran away from so long ago.
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Kate Venerelli, the main character in the story, is returning to the Westbrook estate to get some answers. 12 years earlier, Kate’s family had to leave the estate on a dark, stormy night, and Kate wants answers. Answers that she hopes will help her figure out why her own mother left her and her father shortly after that. Kate is pleasantly surprised at how easy it is for her to rejoin the Westbrook family. There is a young child in need of a tutor, so Kate applies for the job and is offered it almost immediately. Part of her stipend is living quarters. Soon after Kate starts tutoring young Patrick, odd things start happening, namely with Patrick. He claims he can see Ashley, the young girl who Kate was a friend with 12 years ago and who drowned in the pond on the estate. Kate is certain someone is up to no good, but will she figure out who it is before she or Patrick ends up dead?
 * Summary:**

YA fiction—mystery; death; tutoring; ghosts

©Jennifer Lang - WDMS 2004