Brian Newsome, retired novelist, sits on his back porch all day, waiting for his visitors. His visitors aren't exactly alive. They never really existed.

So why do they come to see Brian? Brian knows his spectral visitors have a message for him. He will wait for it. He will wait as long as it takes.

Cynthia Lee lives in Alabama with her husband, son and a very old cat. After a lifelong love affair with books for young people (and young at heart people), she decided to write stories of her own. Penny Dreadful is her first novel.