![]() Also, Daphne is a thinly veiled version of Chloe, a slave from the Myrtles Planation. Daphne tells of the harshness of slave life on a cotton plantation and the beliefs the slaves keep to help make their lives easier. ![]() ![]() While Lila's story is completely fictional, Daphne's (which is told in alternating chapters) is based on fact. In order to solve the mystery, she needs the help of Sal, a young girl who lives at Laurel Oaks, and her brother's trust that the things she is seeing are real. Lila does not understand what she is talking about, but wants to help. During the night, Lila is visited by Daphne, one of the ghosts of Laurel Oaks Plantation, who tells her she must find the babies in the wall. Francisville, Louisiana, she books two nights at the haunted Laurel Oaks Plantation.Īs soon as they arrive, Lila starts to notice creepy things, but her brother is in denial. So when her mom allows her to pick the hotel for their visit to St. Ever since her friend died, Lila Barry has had a fascination with ghosts. ![]() What makes for a good ghost story? A bit of the truth, that's what – and that is exactly what Lois Ruby delivers in The Secret of Laurel Oaks. ![]()
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