Twelve-year-old Amelia Marie Gaines has always heard chilling stories about the old barn on her family’s 300-acre farm in Charlestown, South Carolina. Known across the southern states as the **“barn of the living dead,”** it’s rumored to bring the dead back to life as zombies. Though no one knows the truth behind its dark reputation, Amelia does. In this haunting tale, she takes readers back to the day she uncovered the barn’s deadly secrets—the day she died. Mysterious, eerie, but also emotional and moving, her story reveals that some legends are deeper and more complex than they seem.