The Ghost Who Borrowed Rice (eBook)

Description: In Green Reed Hollow, everyone knows the rule for Ghost Festival night: if something wearing a human face knocks on your door and asks to borrow raw rice, you refuse. If you don't, the dead may cross your threshold-and someone in your home may not live to see morning. Miles Reed grows up with those warnings, but superstition becomes terror when he encounters the impossible for himself. Before the night is over, panic spreads through the village, fear takes hold inside the Hale family's half-built new home, and every old ritual meant to keep evil out starts failing one by one. With his grandfather Walter-the one man who still remembers the old ways-Miles is pulled into a nightmare of blood marks, ghost signs, and neighbors too frightened to tell the truth. The haunting is not random. Something furious has come back, and it seems tied to a secret the villagers have buried for years. As the darkness deepens, suspicion turns inward, ancient taboos collide with human guilt, and every minute brings another chance for the spirit to strike. To survive until dawn, Miles must face more than a ghost at the door-he must uncover what the living did to deserve one. Author Biography: Sophia Blake is a contemporary romance author known for emotionally rich stories of love, longing, and second chances.