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Author Messinger, Holly, author.

Title The curse of Jacob Tracy : a novel / Holly Messinger.

Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  SCI FIC MESSINGER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F MESSINGER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MESSINGER, H    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  SF MESSINGER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Science Fiction  SFF MESSINGER HOLLY    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MESSINGER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-MESSINGER    DUE 04-10-24
Edition First edition.
Description 308 pages : 22 cm
Summary "St. Louis in 1880 is full of ghosts, and Jacob Tracy can see them all. Ever since he nearly died on the battlefield at Antietam, Trace has been haunted by the country's restless dead. The curse cost him his family, his calling to the church, and damn near his sanity. He stays out of ghost-populated areas as much as possible these days, guiding wagon trains West from St. Louis, with his pragmatic and skeptical partner, Boz. During the spring work lull, Trace gets an unusual job offer. Miss Fairweather, a wealthy English bluestocking, needs someone to retrieve a dead friend's legacy from a nearby town, and she specifically wants Trace to do it. However, the errand proves to be far more sinister than advertised. When confronted, Miss Fairweather admits to knowing about Trace's curse, and suggests she might help him learn to control it--in exchange for a few more odd jobs. Trace has no interest in being her pet psychic, but he's been looking twenty years for a way to control his power, and Miss Fairweather's knowledge of the spirit world is too valuable to ignore. As she steers him into one macabre situation after another, his powers flourish, and Trace begins to realize some good might be done with this curse of his. But Miss Fairweather is harboring some dark secrets of her own, and her meddling has brought Trace to the attention of something much older and more dangerous than any ghost in this electrifying and inventive debut"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
FICTION / Horror.
Genre/Form Paranormal fiction.
Ghost stories.
ISBN 9781250038982 (hardback)
1250038987 (hardback)
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