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“Daddy, do you miss Mom?”
Holly braced for a storm, but her father only lowered the newspaper and tilted his head. “Where’s this coming from?”
“I’m just wondering, since we don’t have any pictures or anything,” she murmured, twisting her napkin. “Sorry I asked, I know it’s stupid.”
She took another bite of scrambled eggs before her mouth could run off some more. Albert folded his paper and set it aside.
“Of course I do, she was a very special girl.” He rested his elbows on the table and clasped his hands together. “But why do I need her when I’ve got you?”
There it was again, that intense, unsettling gaze that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. Holly’s eyes lowered to her half-eaten meal, and she shifted in her seat.
The phone began to ring.
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Holly Shaw's thrilled to finally start middle school, but less enthused with everything that comes with it: eerie dreams of black balloons, the unnerving looks her father’s been giving her lately, the skittish school resource officer who swears she looks like his dead sister.Oh, and that annoying ghost girl who keeps insisting Holly's in danger. That too.