This book keeps you engaged while following Shirley and her children's journey after her husband is killed. She has to take several jobs in order to maintain a home for her children. Her neighbor and friend, Rita, was playing the Ouija board one night. Shirley's dead husband comes through and tells Rita to give Shirley a message . . . a message where to find the large amount of money he had been stashing away for many years. Rita tricks Shirley into giving her the dead man's clothing, and the money. Rita begins to use the money and her life changes quickly. The dead man torments Rita in order to get her to return the money. Shirley's family is given another tragic blow and is left homeless. Unexpected help comes from Ms. Alice, the old crabby, fowl-mouthed heathen. Rita's good times quickly change to horrific. The humor, anxieties and tragedies keep you reading to find out how Karma makes the villain redeem herself with a very unexpected end.