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Defending the Dead

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Abby Kimball has only recently come to terms with her gift for seeing the dead, so she is unprepared when a vision drops her into a courtroom from centuries ago. There she meets the stare of a gleeful, spiteful accuser. The scene belongs to the Salem witch trials, a chapter of American history that still draws curiosity. With her boyfriend Ned beside her, Abby begins digging into the people and the causes behind that grim period, and into her own unexpected link to the town. As more fragments of the past come to her, she has to ask whether any of her ancestors were among the accused. The answer may also help her and Ned solve a puzzle in the present.

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