An action-packed suspense story told through the open and honest eyes of a 9-year old girl, adventuresome and wise beyond her years.
It's 1959. Nine year old Cally and brother, Bud, befriend a colored man, Isaac Washington, caretaker of a rundown cemetery and boathouse along the St. John's River in Florida; an unusual friendship, given it's during a time of segregation. Through circumstances beginning on Halloween, Cally and Bud are swept into a frightening world of deadly, dark secrets, hidden in the seemingly peaceful pine forests and groves surrounding the river; secrets of hatred, disguised inside "The River Hunt Club" that meets in a ramshackle hotel thought to be haunted. Cally and Bud, with their two sisters and friends, Larry and Gloria, aren't sure who to trust or where to turn. Kate asks, "If there's going to be trouble, don't you think we should tell the police?" "Tell them what?" Bud answers, "Tell them that a bunch of kids were watching a Klan meeting and we think they're going to do something, but we don't know what, or to who, or where. We don't know anything. Besides, who do we tell; that Billy Bob cop that threatened Isaac?" The kids take matters into their own hands and the reader embarks on a suspenseful and action-packed ride with these unforgettable young heroes in The Grey Ghost.