The Haunted Lighthouse by Shana Gorian

Author:Shana Gorian [Gorian, Shana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-10T23:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

GRAVEYARD COVE

“Why did she keep calling us children?” Noah rolled his eyes. He was thirteen. In middle school—better yet, junior high. A bona fide teenager. And taller than most of his friends, even.

He stopped in front of Andre and reached down to pet Cooper outside the building.

Oakley didn’t seem to mind being called a child but wasted no time starting in on him. “Why don’t you just tell a perfect stranger about every single thing we’ve found in the past two days, Noah? Huh? Maybe there’s a detail you left out?” Her hands were on her hips again. “Oh, wait—there isn’t!”

Noah’s brow tightened. “Now, hold on…”

Cooper’s ears drooped, and Andre stood up from where he was still leaning against the brick wall of the building. “Slow down, Oak’. What’s going on with you two?”

Noah huffed, puffing his chest. As usual, his sister was right and he was wrong, or so she thought. “Apparently, Oakley thinks I let the cat out of the bag in there with the museum lady, but I didn’t. That woman doesn’t give a flying squirrel about what we’re up to. She thinks we’re a couple of dumb kids doing summer school. She doesn’t care what we do.”

Oakley’s look was full of daggers. “You don’t know that, Noah! She works for the museum. She’s got to know about the ghostly legends of the island. What if she were to send someone out there to guard the lighthouse or something? What if the house is blocked the next time we go out there?”

Noah snorted. As if.

Andre looked troubled. “We do need to get your aunt’s key.”

Oakley nodded, one hand still on her hip.

Noah didn’t like where this was going. “Okay, you guys are blowing this way out of proportion. All she said was that the island wasn’t a safe place to visit⁠—”

“—And that we should stay away,” Oakley added gruffly.

“But the only thing she knew was the same information Oakley found in the ledger.”

Andre stared at them. “Which was…?”

“The only thing she told us she knew,” Oakley muttered softly, turning away.

Noah ignored her. “That there are no records of the Constance Gray after 1910, and no known resting place for the boat.” He filled Andre in on what they’d learned about the rest of it. “She also said that Harrison doesn’t know what he’s talking about and that the island’s not haunted, which is strange because she also said the island is not safe. But what’s so unsafe about it if it’s not haunted?”

Andre frowned, looking as perplexed as Noah felt. “Okay, what’s our plan then?” said Andre. “If you two can keep it together, that is?” he scolded.

Oakley started toward the wharf. “We’re taking the boat out to where these GPS coordinates lead. I’m calling the place Graveyard Cove because so many boats apparently went down there.”

“Hmm,” said Andre, “well, I’m intrigued by that name.” He turned to Noah as they started following her. “This little side trip cool with you, Noah?”

Noah shrugged. “Yeah, we can do this, but we’d better look for other options, too.

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