House of Ash and Bone byJoel A. Sutherland

17-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's not more than anything she's ever encountered before. It's filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched.

Josephine then catches her first glimpse of a shadowy woman with long hair, pale skin, an impossibly wide smile and hollow pits for eyes. Her name is Dorcas, the ghost of a witch who died 300 years ago. She has summoned the family to Vermont to ensnare them then consume them in order to rise from the grave and live again. (From Tundra Books)

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Joel A. Sutherland is an Ontario author of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies, children's and YA books. His work includesSummer's End,Haunted Canada 10, Haunted Canada 11 and Haunted: The House Next Door.