"One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets... Following the death of her mother, Becky begins the sad task of sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope post-marked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. Becky arrives at Chynalls to find the beautiful old house crumbling...

"This history explores how the building came to be in Mason City, its design details, its original success and subsequent decline, and the effort to restore-rehabilitate it in order to preserve Wright's legacy. The hotel is the last standing example of the architect's five built hotels..."--P. [4] of cover.

Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...

A collection of papers, clippings and memoranda documenting the restoration of the Main Library building, Public Library of Des Moines.