The Carrefour Curse by: Dianne K. Salerni

A spooky, mystery-filled middle-grade novel that reads like The Addams Family meets The Westing Game. Twelve-year-old Garnet Carrefour has always lived apart from her extended magical family — until she’s summoned to their crumbling manor, Crossroad House, where eerie hallways and odd relatives abound. But the real danger isn’t just spiders and gloomy rooms: the family patriarch is clinging to life in a dark way — draining others’ power to survive. As Garnet digs into the mansion’s past, time-bending clues and an ancient curse challenge her to discover if she was brought there as part of the curse… or to break it