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The Point--Pocasset, Massachusetts 1716 Fifteen-year-old Abigail Hart hides in the cache of her father's cottage to avoid her much older cousin, Nehemiah Alden, and becomes a casualty of colonial times and a grasping desire for land. Greedy and merciless, Nehemiah considers both Abigail and the property as rightfully his, now that her father is believed lost at sea. Nehemiah exerts his will without thought of the consequences, dooms Abigail, and poisons the village for generations to come. Three hundred years later, Sophie Tyler believes overseeing The Point's lighthouse renovations is the perfect answer to her problems. But then the apparitions begin. Emotional footprints from the past connect Sophie to the lost Abigail, a young woman much like herself. With the unwilling assistance of Dan, the restoration contractor, and his hostile supervisor Neal, Sophie seeks to reveal the past. However, someone wants the truth to remain unknown and is willing to end their lives to keep the secret hidden.

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""Celeste Flores deftly juxtaposes the otherworldly and the ordinary, reminding us of the tenuous lines between past and present. Busy navigating the everyday challenges of life, our protagonists are not only haunted by their own histories but soon become intertwined in an unsettling series of events, suggesting how haunted histories may surround us all. Offering lush descriptions of the brutally beautiful New England landscape, Flores's book presents a modern-day ghost story that I couldn't put down."" --Erin Bell, Director, The Writing Center, University of Detroit Mercy ""In the Shadow of Alden Light is set in a place I know, where if there would be ghosts, they would be there, in the dense woods and high bluffs of Pocasset, Massachusetts. I could not stop reading this novel. Never have I read of ghosts this believable, ghosts from 1716 with a story that will not be finished until what happened to them is witnessed. I am hoping Celeste Flores has started her next book."" --Constance Campana, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Wheaton College ""Celeste Flores deftly juxtaposes the otherworldly and the ordinary, reminding us of the tenuous lines between past and present. Busy navigating the everyday challenges of life, our protagonists are not only haunted by their own histories but soon become intertwined in an unsettling series of events, suggesting how haunted histories may surround us all. Offering lush descriptions of the brutally beautiful New England landscape, Flores's book presents a modern-day ghost story that I couldn't put down."" --Erin Bell, Director, The Writing Center, University of Detroit Mercy ""In the Shadow of Alden Light is set in a place I know, where if there would be ghosts, they would be there, in the dense woods and high bluffs of Pocasset, Massachusetts. I could not stop reading this novel. Never have I read of ghosts this believable, ghosts from 1716 with a story that will not be finished until what happened to them is witnessed. I am hoping Celeste Flores has started her next book."" --Constance Campana, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Wheaton College

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Celeste M. Flores has taught literature and writing at University of Detroit Mercy, Rhode Island College, and Emerson College. She is also a certified elementary school teacher and writes children's books.

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