For decades, many creative and adventurous souls have traveled to upstate New York to let their creative juices flow at the Bosco estate. Once owned by Aurora and Milo Latham, it became a posh setting for artists of all kinds. The screening process is harsh, to be invited is an honor. Five very different and artistic individuals find themselves privileged to create among the lush beauty of Bosco.

Ellis Brooks, first-time novelist, is working on a story about Corinth Blackwell, the medium who came to Bosco in the summer of 1893 to help Aurora Latham communicate with her three dead children. Bethesda Graham is writing a biography on the Latham's, while landscape architect David Fox is writing about the gardens that are falling into ruins. Throw in author Nat Loomis and poet Zalman Bronsky and you have a very eclectic group who have more in common with each other and the estate than they think.

As they wander through the gardens, underground tunnels are discovered, statues come to life and mysterious plants begin to bloom. The spirits of the Latham children are within reach and anxious to communicate some haunting message, but uncovering what the message is becomes the real mystery to be solved.

THE GHOST ORCHID is a haunting tale of mystery, love and deceit. The story has a slow beginning but ends up being a ghostly page-turner that I couldn't put down until the final sentence. Goodman is a masterful storyteller with the way she weaves the past events with the present-day occurrences at Bosco. Someone from the summer of 1893 didn't make it out alive. Will history repeat itself?