Twelve-year-old Rebecca is reluctantly traveling with her mom from Chicago to spend the summer with her late father’s brother and his family. Uncle Jon and Aunt Sylvie want to reestablish a closer family connection and have offered Rebecca’s mother a quiet place to work on her PhD while Rebecca babysits her two-year-old cousin. Rebecca would much rather be spending the summer with her best friend, Jenna, who gives the paranormal obsessed girl a copy of a book titled Heart-Stopping Heartland Hauntings. Following an unsettling experience in an abandoned nearby farmhouse, Rebecca becomes convinced that there is a ghostly presence trying to communicate with her. In spite of warnings from Kelsie, a girl whose family owns the dilapidated property, and with the help of local boy Nick, Rebecca discovers a creepy photograph and diary from the early 1900s and becomes even more determined to solve the mystery. Frustrated by her mother’s belief that she is just letting her imagination run wild, Rebecca finds a note stashed in one of her late father’s comic books that proves the same spirit haunted him when he was twelve. Suddenly she feels a real connection to the dad she pretends not to miss. But the more Rebecca discovers, the scarier the ghost becomes. Soon she is in a race to piece together the puzzle and recover a family legacy before it is lost and a horrible tragedy repeats itself. A spine-chilling mystery for middle grade readers.