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Gr 9-Up Helen died 130 years ago as a young woman. Unable to enter heaven because of a sense of guilt she carried at death, she has been silent and invisible but conscious and sociable across the generations. Her spirit has been sustained by its attachment to one living human host after another, including a poet and, most recently, a high-school English teacher. While she sits through his class one day, she becomes aware of James and he -unlike the mortals all around them -is aware of her as well. James, who also di...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead." So begins Whitcomb's original, opinionated, sexy, and romantic novel of the afterlife. Helen is a disembodied spirit who seeks to escape the hell of her dark icy drowning by "cleaving" to a series of human hosts; after 150 years, she meets fellow marooned spirit James, who has taken over a vacant body (that of teenage screw-up Billy, who failed to return after a drug overdose). James and Helen ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More