"Spring is full of new life- young animals are born and new plants grow. People look forward to warmer days to come. See how the weather in spring changes!"--Back cover.

Alexandria is an ordinary teenage girl. She has a best friend, a boyfriend, and a loving family which is really all she needs at her age. All of this changes one fateful day on a school field trip to Maine. Will she survive? Can she save them all? Will they believe her?

The urban legend of Mary Weather B aka The Green Lady has haunted the city of Cleveland, Ohio since the early 1980's. In this novel Mary Weather takes revenge on the children and grandchildren of the local hoods that viciously raped and killed her and her mother Helen Weather. More than Forty years later a group of friends decide to put all the rumors and fairy tales about the legend to the test by having a Halloween party at the abandon house which the spirit of Mary dwells which becomes the most bloody killing in the history of Cleveland.

"Miss Smith, the wealthy old lady who died recently near Chapel Hill, and who bequeathed a large sum of money to the State University, did not fail to remember her old slaves, of whom six are now living," read the New York Times, December 6, 1885. But the Times got it wrong: land, not money, was left to the University of North Carolina and five of Mary Ruffin Smith's former slaves. Four were also her nieces--sired by her two bachelor brothers--and all had the same mother, the Smiths' maid Harriet. A spinster, Mary raised the girls, baptized them into the Episcopal Church, married them to respectable biracial men and left each 100 acres in her will. The result of eight years of research, this book tells the story of the Smith family and the fortune that survived the profligacy of Mary's father before being willed to the university and the North Carolina Episcopal diocese. Every "legitimate" member of the family lies in a small cemetery near the former estate. Harriet was buried an unmarked grave somewhere in Orange County. The hundreds of descendants of her daughters have been virtually ignored--this book is for them.