Ghost Girl

A young woman's body is found frozen in the river, perfectly preserved as if winter itself had trapped her in glass. When Jeffrey returns from an unexpected sabbatical, cut short after completing a portrait of a dead girl, the quiet town of his friends Drew and Katharine begins to stir with questions. Why did he abandon his commission? What did he see in the dead girl's face? As Jeffrey and Drew dig deeper, the coincidences multiply: another body, another portrait, another secret buried in the frozen past. Webster builds his mystery with the slow, icy patience of a winter river, each revelation sending shivers through the carefully ordered lives of his characters. The ghost girl of the title is both literal and metaphorical, a figure who won't stay buried, whose presence haunts the living long after her heart stopped beating.