Together, the trio attempts to uncover why Death has sent an Emissary, one claiming that Cassidy is a thief who needs to be returned to the dark. A clever, selfless girl, Lara lives in Scotland, but when she realizes her friend needs her because she is being pursued by an Emissary of Death, Lara flies to Cassidy’s aid. A person becomes an in-betweener after having a close brush with death, a one-foot-in-the-grave kind of close. Lara is also a Veil-walker, an in-betweener who nearly died but is granted a second chance at life. Already, he can read Cassidy’s unspoken thoughts. The pair is connected in an uncanny way-a manner that displeases Lara Chowdhury who believes that Cass should send Jacob on before he becomes dangerous. Now, the two are partners in crime as Cassidy works to rescue spirits that are trapped, caught in a kind of loop of their last moments, and it’s her job to send them beyond the Veil. Jacob himself drowned trying to rescue his little brother’s toy. In fact, it is Jacob who saved Cass’s life. She also acquires an “invisible friend” in Jacob Ellis Hale, who is her best friend and the resident ghost. This episode has the family filming in New Orleans, a place where color, style, and sound collide a place of contradictions.Īlthough Cassidy has always had a brain that doodles, helping to show her things that aren’t there, after her near-drowning, she has a way of seeing more. As they travel the world to produce film accounts of their findings, Cassidy tags along from Paris to Edinburgh and beyond. In this third volume in the City of Ghosts series, Schwab features twelve-year-old Cassidy Blake whose parents are the Inspecters: World-traveling, ghost-hunting, paranormal investigators. ©2018 Victoria Schwab (P)2018 Scholastic Inc.Young readers looking for a good ghost story with adventure and history stirred in will find it in Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab.

New York Times best-selling author Victoria Schwab delivers a thrillingly spooky and action-packed tale of hauntings, history, mystery, and the bond between friends (even if that friend is a ghost.).

The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her 'gift', she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil - and herself.Īnd she'll have to learn fast.

Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. From number-one New York Times best-selling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.Įver since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead.and enter the world of spirits.