Never To Be Told

Ages 9 - 12

224 pages

The Story

A faint sound brushed her ear, and she heard a voice whisper death. She glanced around, astonished. A gentle breeze had picked up, rippling the long grass in the meadow. She frowned. There was no one else there, except Ira and Maddy, and the only sound was the rustling of the aspen leaves by the creek.


Asia has lived with elderly Ira and his wife Maddy for as long as she can remember. She loves their farm at Cold Creek, but when Ira has a heart attack, his interfering son Harry comes to visit and turns Asia’s world upside down. Distraught at the possibility of losing the only family she has ever known, Asia is frightened but fascinated by the appearance of a ghost at an abandoned farm – a ghost only she can see and hear. Harry eventually ferrets out the truth about Asia’s mother and Asia must confront a whole set of relatives she had no idea existed. When she is sent to live with her grandmother in West Vancouver, Asia solves both the mystery of the ghost at the Old Farm and the puzzle of her mother’s disappearance.