Ugly Young Thing

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"Sixteen-year-old Allie has already experienced a lifetime of horror, having lost her mother and serial-killer brother to mental illness. Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana, Allie ends up in foster care and is placed with Miss Bitty, an eccentric but kind older woman who shows her a new direction and a brighter future." But after young neighborhood women start turning up dead, Miss Bitty grows distant, and Allie begins to see shadowy figures, she wonders if death has left her. (cover p. 4)