How long can murder haunt a family? Until the wrong is

put right, and the victim rests in peace. Here is a story

of just such a murder and haunting. Set in Lexington,

Massachusetts, on the eve of the Civil War and in the

present, The Safe Room follows the doomed love affair

between Silas Person, a runaway slave riding the Under-

ground Railroad, and Sarah Harden, a famous abolition-

ist s daughter who befriends him.

Sarah and Silas s story is intertwined with that of Lee

Seymour, a modern-day descendant who suddenly must

grapple with a world in which murder and ghosts are all

too real. This suspenseful tale uses themes of love and the

paranormal to explore both the ugliness of injustice and

the beauty of hope.