Dreams are forever

By WIlliam Hayes

Subjects: Teenagers, Mansions, Slavery, Coming of age, Murder, Fiction

Description: After a high school senior in 1956 Shawneetown, Illinois discovers a tie-in between some rotting wooden planks, an abandoned mansion, and the Old Slave House, a plantation-like home that was used in the 1800s to house captured runaway slaves, he learns of a more recent murder and struggles to avoid the killer.