Sage, at fourteen, grows up in turmoil in Nahant, Massachusetts. Her changing body, her parents' rocky marriage. When her cousin Patrick visits for the summer, his parents' divorce has given him a reckless anger. He insists they explore the creepy mansion in the woods. Nate, Sage's younger brother, is reluctant to approach the manor where a beloved teacher was found hanged months earlier. The children's great-great grandmother worked at Lakeluster House in a previous century and was under suspicion of shooting another servant.

Now an old lady and her butler have moved in and the kids bring a welcome cake. Invited inside, Sage encounters a strange little girl who shows her the manor's dark secrets?sparking Sage's curiosity. Will the butler?a man with his own mysteries?throw them out for snooping? Who is real and who is a ghost? Was her relative guilty? And what danger lingers in the attic? Sage must gather her courage, risking her life to find out.

Editorial Review by Renee Duke

A YA novel that will definitely appeal to young teens who like scary stories, Secrets Of Lackluster House successfully conveys the insecurity and emotional turmoil of its adolescent and preteen protagonists as they find courage they didn't know they had.