There Was a Crooked Man:
Companion Short Story to Among Her Final Words
When your house has rooms that feel forbidden, that’s usually for a reason…
Carly knows her reason. Gate House is brimming with ghosts, and the secrets they died with. Among them is Ronald, the family lawyer, a mysterious spirit who died more than 100 years ago, and still holds a lot of the house’s darkest truths.
So when Carly gets the opportunity to channel with him to relive the day he met Henry and Eliza in the late 1800s, she can’t resist. It’s a chance to uncover why Ronald came to Gate House in the first place — and the connections he has to the curse, Carly’s baby box, and a possible murder.
But the more Carly channels, the more she realizes she’s somehow connected to this memory, too.
And this might be the beginning of her own darker secrets.