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Anya is just your everyday, ordinary, teenage girl. She's sulky, feels like she doesn't fit in, and hates school. While walking outside trying to deal with her problems, she is only trying to mind her own business when she falls into an old, haunted well! When she finds an ancient skeleton nearly buried in grit and soil, she ends up meeting a small ghost named Emily, lost in memories of the past. Anya is clueless on what to do about all of her current dilemmas. What to do about the ghost? How to get out of the well? When both of them are saved by a walking pedestrian, Anya and the ghost become best friends. Emily helps Anya in school, and Anya agrees to help Emily solve her own murder, that happened over 90 years ago. But all is not as it

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