In the Ballroom with the Candlestick by Diana Peterfreund EPUB & PDF

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• Author: Diana Peterfreund
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• Genre: Suspense 
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Orchid
Vaughn Green was singing again.
Orchid McKee looked up from the textbook she had been trying, and
failing, to read for the last fifteen minutes. The Tudor House dining room
was empty except for her. She cocked her head to the side, wondering if
she’d imagined it.

But no, that was him. And it wasn’t a song she recognized, either.
Weird. She’d thought each of his songs was etched permanently in her
memory. By now, she could guess the tune within a handful of notes. If the
song was “Another Me,” she could tell even before it began, with the
halting half-strum of Vaughn’s guitar that Scarlett had kept in the video for
authenticity.

Of course it was all authentic—the arrangements simple, the sound
tinny. He’d been making the recordings in his room with his phone instead
of real recording equipment. But the fans didn’t care.
The hundreds of thousands of fans.
She sat up and glanced at her phone, wondering if it was autoplaying
one of the recordings. But it was silent. She swiped over to the music
account.

Nothing. Well, unless you counted the fifty thousand new views since
this morning. Today’s top track was “Off on Another Great Adventure.”
Not one of Orchid’s favorites, to be honest.
Vaughn hadn’t gotten to go on any great adventures. He’d died in a car
at the bottom of Rocky Point Ravine.

But what was this song? She couldn’t make out any words, but she
knew it was Vaughn. His style, his voice. Where was it coming from? She
opened the door to the hall. The music went on, still faint as ever. Now, she
could hear words.
And when this heart, this body, this shore, this dawn breaks
There’ll be another addition to my list of mistakes.
Because I never told you all . . .

That morningfall.
Yeah, that was Vaughn all right. Half his songs were about secrets.
Maybe that’s why she liked his music so much.
But this song, too, was a secret. Because Orchid had never heard it.
“Hello?” she called into the quiet hall. Students didn’t stick around
Tudor House these days if they didn’t have to. It was one of the reasons
Orchid liked to study here. Being invisible was a luxury she’d lost in the
past few months. If she had to hide out in the Murder House to get away
from people’s prying eyes, so be it.

There were a few rooms still unfilled with blood or memories.
She walked farther into the hall, listening for the ghostly strains of
Vaughn’s voice. It got louder as she moved toward the front of the house.
The doors to the kitchen, ballroom, and conservatory were open, revealing
nothing but the usual Tudor House furnishings. She listened at the billiards
room door—recently repurposed as Peacock’s ground-floor bedroom since
the accident—and heard nothing. The library—Dr. Brown’s office—was
shut, as usual, but the sound wasn’t coming from there, either.
“Hello?” she said again, more loudly. “Does anyone else hear that
music?”

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