In the Shadow of the Lilac: Finale: Requiem

Luceat Eis…

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Welcome to In the Shadow of the Lilac! This is the conclusion to our wholesome spooky serial. If you’d like to receive occasional mysteries like this in your inbox, please be sure to subscribe to the section “It was a Dark and Stormy Night.” Thank you!

Synopsis: When Melody and Zion Holcomb move to Lavender Vale ahead of their parents, they expect the peaceful Gilded Age town to be a breath of fresh air. They can’t begin to guess that a century-old mystery has been lying in wait for them to solve. . . and the answers lie buried in the halls of the Hotel Lilac.

Last seen: Grant and Zion raced the clock to save Melody from a century-old poison, but the spectres weren’t about to admit her to any hospital.

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Arms bound behind his back, Zion sat in the old wooden chair where he’d been placed, pushed back from the table with its dusty gingham tablecloth. He could feel a dull ache setting in between his eyes.