Hush

Angela Sayers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Convinced by her controlling brother to stop taking her medication, Angelas world unravels just a little more when she discovers she can communicate with the dead. Its not a welcome revelation. Her dead mother was driven mad by this gift. Eager to capitalize on their mothers fame as a medium, her brother forces Angela to publically become the unwilling heir apparent. Soon, Sayers Medium Services is shamelessly exploiting the fears of the most vulnerablethe elderly, the feeble-minded, the grievingfor obscene profit. Uncertain if her increasingly fragile state of mind is caused by lack of medication, sleep deprivation, or guilt, Angela endures a plague of sleepless nights. If shes going to have any semblance of a future, she knows she must find a way to confront her own demonsincluding the fear that its all in her head. When they are hired to cleanse an old orphanage that is genuinely haunted, its up to Angela to get everyone out alive. But with reality slipping away, can she escape the prison of her mind long enough to save them? "Angela Sayers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Convinced by her controlling brother to stop taking her medication, Angela's world unravels just a little more when she discovers she can communicate with the dead. It's not a welcome revelation. Her dead mother was driven mad by this gift. Eager to capitalize on their mother's fame as a medium, her brother forces Angela to publicly become the unwilling heir apparent. Soon, Sayers Medium Services is shamelessly exploiting the fears of the most vulnerable -- the elderly, the feeble-minded, the grieving -- for obscene profit. Uncertain if her increasingly fragile state of mind is caused by lack of medication, sleep deprivation, or guilt, Angela endures a plague of sleepless nights. If she's going to have any semblance of a future, she knows she must find a way to confront her own demons -- including the fear that it's all in her head. When they are hired to cleanse an old orphanage that is genuinely haunted, it's up to Angela to get everyone out alive. But with reality slipping away, can she escape the prison of her mind long enough to save them?"--Back cover A group of broke college students start a phony "ghostbusters" type business in order to make some extra cash and find success scamming the elderly residents of the town; however, they fall into trouble when they're hired to de-ghost an old orphanage that is genuinely haunted and still occupied by a decrepit headmistress with a disturbing past of her own.