Summary: After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.

Considering this is written much like a traditional Gothic ghost story, I didn't find myself at all creeped out. I figured out the "mystery" way too quickly in the story. I also found Jennie, the main character who tells the story, to be pretty silly. I think I only kept reading because the design of the book is so awesome. The book is illustrated throughout to resemble Jennie's scrapbook of objects that she finds or steals and which relate to her life's story. I also found much of the historical information from the novel to be interesting. In other words, I'm glad I read it, but I am equally glad that it was a short, quick read or I probably would have given up on it.