Tamsin by Beagle, Peter
Tamsin Willoughby, dead some 300 years, haunts ramshackle old Stourhead Farm in Dorset, England, an ancient 700-acre estate that 13-year-old Jenny's new, English stepfather is restoring. Jenny, miserable at being transplanted from New York City to rural Britain, finds a kindred spirit in Tamsin, a ghost who is mourning Edric, a love she lost during Dorset's punitive Bloody Assizes. Tamsin leads Jenny through an intriguing night world inhabited many supernatural beings--the ominous Black Dog, a braggart Boggart, ominous Oakmen, the shapeshifting Pooka . To save Tamsin and gentle Edric from eternal torment, Jenny must defeat the ghost of Judge Jeffries, who sentenced hundreds of people to brutal execution. A marvelous tale of good and evil, of wonder and heartbreak, and of a love stronger than death.