When the Spirit Moves You
(When the Spirit... Book I)
Arlene Watson and her girlfriends intended to spend
most of their summer vacation at the beach among
friends, and naturally boys, before returning to
high school for their senior year. But on one
particularly hot and lazy afternoon in late June,
Arlene consents to perform tarot readings for her
closest friends. Her minor talent for
'fortune-telling' had seemed to mature dramatically
since receiving an unusual hand-painted tarot deck
as a gift from her sister. Since then, whenever she
gathered socially with friends, someone would beg
for a reading.
Repeated attempts at finding answers in the cards on
this occasion only produced more questions. In
frustration, Arlene gives up. Hoping that contact
with a real spirit from the 'great beyond' might
help clarify ambiguous responses from the cards, she
convinces the others to join her in an experimental
séance at a deserted mansion where a ghost is
reputed to roam the grounds each evening.
Waiting until security patrols end for the day, the
four young women sneak onto the estate and manage to
enter the house. Their efforts at contact appear to
fail, but as they prepare to leave, the spirit
arrives and shows them how foolhardy they were to
tamper with metaphysical forces beyond their ken.