The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young

Charlotte (Charlie) has lost her young son tragically and is in mourning. She begins to have strange visions of dead kids and finds out from her grandmother that she too shares this gift. When Charlie is offered a writing job about a cold child kidnapping case on an old southern mansion, she sees it as an escape from the daily reminders of her son. Once at the grand mansion out in the bayou these visions begin to take an eerie turn as she believes they are coming from the little boy whose kidnapping she is investigating. The family is split as to why and what Charlie should be writing about and she soon finds herself knee deep in the troubled family history and secrets no one wants shared. There also is the new man in her life that has secrets of his own. Gothic ghost story so well conceived that you will find yourself smelling the heavy scent of magnolia, feel the dampness and listening to the whispers from the bayou.