Rosaura Douglas's father shot himself after her mother left him . . . or at leas
t that's the story everyone is telling. Now her mother has remarried and Rosie i
s trapped in "The Cake House," a garish pink edifice in the hills of Los Angeles
that's a far cry from the cramped apartment where she grew up. It's also the ho
use where her father died--a fact that everyone else who lives there, including
her mother, Dahlia, and her mysteriously wealthy stepfather, Claude, want to for
get.
Soon, however, her father's ghost appears, sometimes in a dark window, so
metimes in the house's lush garden, but always with warnings that Claude is not
to be trusted. And as the ghost becomes increasingly violent--and the secrets of
her family's past come to light--Rosie must finally face the truth behind the l
osses and lies that have torn her life apart.
