The Safe Room — Barbara Shapiro

How long can murder haunt a family? Until the wrong is put right, and the victim rests in peace. Here is a story of such a murder and haunting. Set in Lexington, Massachusetts, on the eve of the Civil War and in the present, THE SAFE ROOM follows the doomed love affair between Silas Person, a runaway slave riding the Underground Railroad, and Sarah Harden, a famous abolitionist's daughter who befriends him.

Sarah and Silas's story is intertwined with that of Lee Seymour, a modern-day descendant who suddenly must grapple with a world in which murder and ghosts are all too real.