Candles Burning — Tabitha King; Michael McDowell

Calliope "Galley" Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn't hear--and knows things a little girl should never know.

Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernable motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There--in a house that's a dead ringer for Calley's late great-grandmother's house--another woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands, what Calley is, but has no idea just how strong her bond is with her father--even after death...