Sara Rath with Judith Ulch, Medium -- at our August 24 book launch of NIGHT SISTERS, Wonewoc Spiritualist Camp. I am holding an antique trumpet used in the old days of mediumship for enhancing Spirit voices. This trumpet belonged to Judith's grandmother who was also a medium at the camp.
Nell Grendon never thought about communing with the dead during her childhood in Little Wolf, Wisconsin; she was more concerned with slumber parties, boys, and the Lord's Prayer Ring she won (dishonestly) in a Methodist Bible Bee. But when a chance visit to the eccentric but charming Wocnaga Spiritualist Camp brings the adult Nell face-to-face with the elderly medium Grace Waverly, she cannot resist the temptation to learn more about spirit mediumship.
Nell intendes to fake her intuitive talents, but soon she spontaneously channels Angella Wing, an actress from the 1920s once known as the "Woman of a Thousand Voices." Nell attempts to conceal her occult interests from skeptical friends, including a handsome jazz musician who rents an apartment in her historic home and a childhood friend with buried anguish of her own. But soon Angella's mischievous presence begins to make Nell's life more and more difficult, eventually attracting shadows of Nell's past. As she tries to free herself from Angella's influence, Nell is forced into an investigation of a mysterious death at the very heart of her childhood -- and the revelation of surprisingly dark secrets.
