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Ivy’s Ghost, a tender yet harrowing tale, is a masterful blend of character-driven narrative and etheric, lyrical prose.

In 1972, Tristan and Ivy Hart are placed by the California child welfare system into the Northern Utah home of their nearest relatives, the Abbott family. As brother and sister seek to navigate their new morally strict household and traditional church-going township—they soon grapple with inner-family secrecy. Even in the midst of idyllic rural charm and small personal victories, we watch in grief as innocence is swept up in the undercurrents of cause and effect. Yet this story’s questions glow in the dark—profoundly illuminating the power of choice, love, and change. Ivy’s Ghost is the seventh story in the MERGENCE series, which consists of seven standalone novellas connected by an ancestral chest. https://sites.google.com/view/nellarowehn/home