Review

This book is about a girl named Judith Sparrow who gets to live in her Uncle's house because her mother died in a madhouse and her father died. But she soon finds from a worker at the hat shop (the place where she recently got a job), named Violet Morrison, that a girl named Jade Green used to live there but died because she cut her own hand off. From then on she is haunted by the severed hand of Jade Green. Also she finds out why the color green is forbidden in the house; it is because it is Jade Green's favorite color, but she brings in green anyways-a green silk frame with her mother's photo in it. Judith finds love in Zeke a young delivery boy. Judith tells Zeke of her fear of Charles, her 40-year-old cousin. Eventually a hurricane comes to the town of Wispers so everyone is running. Jade stays behind with Zeke to board up the windows and Charles locks Zeke out and tried to rape Judith! And when Charles comes into the house Judith grabs a knife then Charles tells Judith how Jade died. He killed her because she was in the same position Judith is in. Then Charles sees the hand and Judith runs to let Zeke in and when they come back Charles is dead and the hand is gone.
kmk 9/08/05