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In the sultry summer of 1878, Edmond Pendergast, a flamboyant but broke British actor, arrives at Magnolia Hall to tutor the grandchildren of the reclusive Lavinia Beauregard. The moss-draped Lowcountry estate seems alive, creaking with secrets, echoing with music no one plays, and haunted by spirits both sorrowful and violent. Among them is Clementine DuPont, Lavinia's lost sister, a Creole beauty whose forbidden love and tragic fate have been buried for decades. As the house's mysteries unfold-attic imprisonments, hidden grief, and whispers of vengeance-Edmond documents every eerie event in his journal, attempting to balance melodrama with courage. But when the town gathers for the Combahee River Festival, the spirits are unleashed, and the line between theatrics and true haunting disappears. In the chaos, the living and the dead confront the weight of silence, the scars of history, and the power of confession, redemption, and remembrance. By the novel's end, Magnolia Hall is transformed-not merely repaired, but reconciled, and Edmond becomes its enduring chronicler, harmonizing human hearts with spectral voices in a duet that bridges past and present.

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