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Ode to Johnny Moon
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HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Ndy Press
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the summer of 1969, a ten-year-old boy named Johnny Moon disappeared into silence. This year, Marnie's own son is the one who hears him.
Marnie Putnam thought accepting her psychic gift would be the hard part - not raising a child who has inherited it, too. But when four-year-old Oliver begins talking to the ghost of Johnny Moon, and Johnny starts haunting Marnie's mother-in-law, Pearl, Marnie realizes this is no random visit. Johnny is reaching for her son specifically, pulling him deeper into a story that isn't his to carry, one tangled up with Pearl's buried memories and with what Oliver is only beginning to understand about his own gift.
Piecing together Pearl's hazy recollections and her own unsettling psychic echoes, Marnie reconstructs Johnny's final days - even as she feels Oliver being drawn further from her reach with each answer she uncovers. The deeper she goes, the harder one question becomes to shake: how do you help a child carry a gift you don't yet understand yourself?
Haunting, heartfelt, and beautifully mysterious.
Made me cry, made me smile, kept me intrigued, and gave me characters I genuinely cared about.
Because those who move into the light are never completely gone.
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For fans of Karen White, Barbara Davis, and Diane Chamberlain - with the psychic-mother heart of TV's Medium: a Southern mystery about the secrets children carry, the silence that lets them fester, and the truth that finally sets them free. Ode to Johnny Moon is Book Two of the acclaimed Marnie Putnam - Lake Gardner series of cozy-dark Southern mysteries blending family secrets, suspense, and whispers of the supernatural.
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