Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets. "Portia is ecstatic when she learns that her parents bought Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian hosue along of the edge of Gone-away Lake. Vacant for years, Portia and her cousin Julian explore the ghostly home with the help of elderly neighbors Mr. Payton and Mrs. Cheever. Both children [are] excited to uncover the secrets the old home hides." -- Back cover.
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