In search of rose notes (First edition.)

Eleven-year-olds Nora and Charlotte were best friends.

When their teenage babysitter, Rose, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the girls decided to investigate.

But their searchaided by paranormal theories and techniques gleaned from old Time-Life bookswent nowhere.Years later, Nora, now in her late twenties, is drawn back to her old neighborhoodand to her estranged friendwhen Roses remains are finally discovered.

Upset over their earlier failure to solve the possible murder, Charlotte is adamant that they join forces and try again.

But Nora was the last known person to see Rose alive, and shes not ready to revisit her troubled adolescence and the events surrounding the disappearanceor face the disturbing secrets that are already beginning to reemerge.