Red leaped on top of me. She straddled my waist, her hands on either side of my head. The bouncing ship swung her broken neck from side to side, but her blackened gaze still found mine, freezing my soul with the ferocity that lurked there. Where had that come from? She'd always been the single ghost who'd actually helped me.

She wrenched my mouth open wide with icy hands. "Let me in!" Her brittle, otherworldly voice grated prickles up my scalp.

I tried to shake her ...