The Ghost Ring

Simon Moody’s mom inherits her wealthy Uncle Edmund’s estate, giving them more than enough money to pay all four years of Simon’s upcoming college tuition. The only problem is, they have to leave Brooklyn, move to the little town of Caligo Falls, and make Wilder House, the infamous Victorian mansion built by Edmund’s grandfather in 1905, their new home. They’ve also inherited a mysterious caretaker named Harrington, and a punctual but melancholy cook, Mrs. Morley.

Tom Hoffman’s The Ghost Ring: Shadows of Caligo Falls, the second installment in The Ghost Ring series, is a captivating blend of supernatural mystery and heartfelt storytelling. Returning to the eerie New England town of Caligo Falls, Hoffman deepens the mythology introduced in Welcome to Wilder House, weaving a tale that feels at once intimate and epic. Simon Moody and his best friend Clara Barley, armed with courage, curiosity, and the mystical Sacred Shadow Ring of Persephone, once again find themselves entangled in a web of secrets that bridge the realms of the living and the dead.

Simon Moody and Clara Barley, a pair of amateur paranormal investigators, discover that Clara's freshman dorm room at Harvard is haunted by the ghost of a student murdered in 1841. The two friends set out to solve the mysterious murder, their circuitous quest leading them to a terrifying encounter with the unnaturally tall Head Matron of a historic lunatic asylum, abandoned in 1870.