“He always wanted everything I ever had, including my face.”

46. Nightmare Inn – T.S. Rue

A one-woman red-headed jealousy-killing machine ghost – and Sebastian knew about her the whole time! Sheesh.

Anyway, this book starts off with some super teen dramatics coming out of Sarah – she’s done something. Last night. It was something she feels really guilty about. It makes her sick to think of going on the fishing trip with her sloppy boyfriend and her best friend and her neat boyfriend. Oh no! I mean, I don’t like camping, but nature is trying to kill me, not my guilty conscience.

Finally, after much mental hand-wringing, we find out Sarah likes her best friend’s boyfriend better. Okay then. She kissed him last night and now her hormones are overwhelming her and she’s kinda out of it, calling her friend Jodie by the name “Ellen” even though she knows no Ellens. Then she sees a phantom pink school bus when they’re driving on a rutted out road in a rainstorm and now there’s no fishing trip to go on because she leads them to The Arcadia Inn, this series’ version of the Hotel California, and her like sister-ghost the red-headed jealousy-killing machine. If only she hadn’t kissed Adam like every dramatic teen who realizes their feelings are leading them to a different boy!

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Ozma has nothing to feel guilty about.