The Worthy: A Ghost's Story

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Simon and Schuster, Jul 3, 2006 - Fiction - 256 pages
Conrad had it pretty good in life -- a Porsche, pretty girls, and a trust fund full of oil money. But now, thanks to a brutal hazing incident at Louisiana State University's Gamma Chi fraternity, Conrad is dead -- a nineteen-year-old spirit suddenly without an earthly body.

Make no mistake, the newly deceased Conrad is one angry ghost, and the object of his wrath is chapter president Ryan Hutchins, a "big, bright, rising star" who, in Conrad's view, is really "the darkest black hole you'll ever meet -- and I'm not just saying that because he killed me." Conrad's ghostly ability to see all but be seen by no one (except Miss Etta, Gamma Chi's elderly cook, who is gifted with paranormal powers) confirms his suspicion that Ryan's dark hand has a wide reach, from beating his girlfriend, Maggie Meadows, to terrorizing Sarah Jane Bradford, a religious student who senses that Ryan must be stopped.

Out for revenge, Conrad possesses an unsuspecting pledge's body so he can finish what Ryan started, steering them toward a depraved confrontation with a surprising outcome that will leave readers gasping.
 

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Section 1
1
Section 2
9
Section 3
18
Section 4
25
Section 5
31
Section 6
42
Section 7
50
Section 8
58
Section 15
128
Section 16
137
Section 17
142
Section 18
156
Section 19
163
Section 20
173
Section 21
191
Section 22
200

Section 9
67
Section 10
73
Section 11
86
Section 12
93
Section 13
101
Section 14
115
Section 23
205
Section 24
218
Section 25
228
Section 26
239
Section 27
241
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Will Clarke doesn't want you to know where he lives or what he's doing next.

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