Akron Public Library

In 1987, while her mother sits in a Baltimore hotel at the deathbed of a grandmother twelve-year-old Annie never knew, Annie travels back fifty years and shares adventures with the lonely girl who will grow up to be her feisty grandmother.

In the mid-1950s, Yggdrasil Birnbaum and her friends, Seamus and Neddie, journey to Old New Hackensack, which is on another plane, to try to learn why ghosts are disappearing from the Birnbaum's hotel and other Hollywood, California, locations.

When a young girl and her older brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mysterious Teller. The girl makes a deal with the commanding creature to free them all from his haunting paradise--and let them return to their mother, white roses in hand. But can the girl, determined as she is, hold up her side of the bargain?"--

Penny's skepticism about ghosts, love, and family change when her ghost-hunting mother sends her to a "friend's" inn in Maine for Christmas, where Penny confronts her own supernatural gift, an alluring boy, and staggering family secrets.

As Dead End reopens, hotel manager Norma is determined to leave the ghosts of the past where they belong, but with her friendship with Barney up in the air and the visiting angels and demons causing chaos, she soon discovers unwanted ghosts can appear at any moment--especially your own.