Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13

The story centers on teens and family tension around local history, ghosts, and painful secrets. Language mixes occasional mild and moderate swearing with one stronger word, plus insults during arguments at home. Physical and emotional intensity includes property destroyed in rage, visible blood from injuries, and a frightening scene where an adult forces a teenager into a bathroom while the teen fights back. Parents may also want to know about harsh name-calling, a sexual slur from a parent figure, and brief mention of adult websites in a research context rather than on-screen depictions.

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Reviews first uploaded October 8, 2026 2:05 pm. Page updated October 8, 2026 2:05 pm.

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Crude Mild

10

Light put-downs such as calling someone foolish or an idiot show up in peer talk and frustration; severity stays below the stronger profanity.

Amazon reviews mentioning crude

Specific words
  • stupid: 6
  • idiot: 3
  • suck: 1

Profanity Moderate

6

Insults and mild expletives appear in family blowups and teen dialogue. Strongest language is concentrated in parental shouting matches rather than on every page.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • shit: 5
  • bitch: 1

Sex Mild

2

A degrading sexual insult is used in domestic conflict. Characters also encounter references to adult websites while researching local history; there is no explicit sexual activity described in the samples.

Amazon reviews mentioning sex

Specific words
  • porn: 1
  • slut: 1

Violence Moderate

17

Physical harm includes bleeding cuts and scrapes, objects smashed in anger, and a tense struggle where a teen kicks to escape an adult in a bathroom. Much other kicking language refers to pebbles or furniture rather than people.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • kick: 6
  • blood: 5
  • smash: 3
  • bleed: 2
  • punch: 1

About this book

Celeste struggles with finding her way from a dark past until she gets a summer volunteer gig at the local historical fair. Enter outrageous actors, dominating psychics, and ghosts stirred by a medium’s presence. With the help of the psychic’s son, who isn’t at all what her dream date would look like, but rather endearing all the same, Celeste uncovers secrets about the village left hidden among the dilapidated buildings. Searching deeper will mean opening her heart, a part of her she’s locked up tight and been petrified of freeing. Read more