Upon their father’s death, Tess and her younger brother, Axel, leave New York for their grandparents’ home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wants Axel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.
- ISBN: 9781481419819
- Author: Yates, Alexander
- Published: 2015 , Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Themes: Death, Grandparents, Orphans, Supernatural
- Descriptors: Europe, Fiction, Finland, Nordic, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 448