SOLVED. Children's book with a boy who is blind and a ghost [s]

[[deleted user]]

I read a book when I was much younger, where a boy who is blind is staying at someone's house by the sea. He becomes friends with another boy, who we learn is a ghost, but the boy doesn't know, and thinks it's just another child. It turns out the child who is blind looks exactly like a child who lived many years before, who the ghost knew. I think the child who is blind was named Rory. I'll put the rest in spoiler tags.

(view spoiler)[The child the ghost knew was his servant, and, when he was alive, they were on the beach when a huge tide was coming in. The boy (now ghost) couldn't swim, and was trapped. I think he begged the servant to stay with him, and they both died. But the servant boy could swim, and so the ghost of his master stayed in limbo, and had a chance every very long time to go to heaven, if he got his servant to forgive him. Apparently the child who is blind was the reincarnation of his servant. The huge tide only happened every very long time, and he had to be forgiven when it was happening. The ghost and the child were at the beach, he found out the story, and he forgave him. (hide spoiler)]

An amazing book. Please help!

[Lisa]

Into the Dark by Nicholas Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0590434...

[[deleted user]]

Yes! That's it. Now I can add it to my read shelf. Thank you so much!

I'll move this thread to a solved folder when I'm on my computer instead of my phone.

[Lisa]

You're welcome.