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by Jason Prunty (Adapted by), Monica Flory (Based on a Play by)
ROSEMALLOW HOUSE
The ghosts have been waiting for someone to listen.
For over a century, the spirits of Rosemallow House have been trapped between worlds-reliving their worst moments, slowly forgetting everything except grief and rage. They remember a thriving community, stolen. Families stripped of their land and forced into servitude. A history of injustice buried so deep that even the descendants don't know the truth.
They've kept their secrets hidden in the walls of this haunted mansion. They've watched generations pass. And now, with developers preparing to demolish everything and bury the evidence beneath concrete and commerce, the dead are ready to reveal everything.
Some hauntings aren't about scaring the living. They're about refusing to be erased.
When Fern and her diverse ensemble of friends are pulled into the past by restless spirits, they witness the original betrayal-and learn what's really at stake. The ghosts offer an impossible choice: Burn the house and scatter us into unknown oblivion. Or let them bury us, and watch us drift toward something dangerous.
But Fern refuses to accept that destruction and erasure are the only options. Even as her found family fractures over whose ancestors were victims and whose were complicit. Even as the weight of generational trauma threatens to divide them. Even as the clock runs out and dawn approaches with bulldozers in tow.
What if restorative justice is possible? What if the living and the dead could build something new together?
Rosemallow House is an atmospheric supernatural mystery about memory, inherited history, and the radical possibility of transformation. It's about teen friendships tested by uncomfortable truths. About the weight of what our families leave behind. About the dead who refuse to disappear-and the living brave enough to finally hear them.
A haunted mansion mystery perfect for fans of Cemetery Boys and Small Spaces-readers who love atmospheric YA ghost stories with emotional depth, paranormal twists, and stories that refuse easy answers.
Because some stories won't stay buried. And the ghosts are done waiting.
