Mary Cathleen Brown Books

Tom has recently moved into the eerie Tall Man’s House, where he begins to hear strange voices drifting up from the cellar. One night, he overhears a desperate boy bargaining with a rat named Captain Rat, offering an unusual acorn in exchange for a leg-iron key. Though the cellar is empty when he investigates, Tom is certain the boy is really trapped in a haunting past and at the mercy of the ominous Tall Man who lurks within the house’s shadows. As Tom’s encounters with the boy grow more intense, so does the looming threat of the Tall Man, whose ghostly presence still chills the village, even two centuries later. With every journey into the past, Tom is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the Tall Man’s House. Can Tom and Captain Rat defy the forces that bind them and free the boy from the cellar before time runs out?

This is a chilling tale of time-travel mystery, and a gripping read. Recommended for readers 11+.