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''Amber House'' is the first book in the Amber House Trilogy by American author Kelly Moore and her daughters Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed. The book follows narrator Sarah Parsons, who discovers she has the psychic ability of psychometry, enabling her to see into her own history as she stays at her family's ancestral estate outside of Annapolis, Maryland. ''Amber House'' is a young adult paranormal mystery novel. Critics have remained in disagreement over what genre ''Amber House'' best fits into; ''Kirkus Reviews'' dubbed it "horror romance," and ''Booklist'' cited the story's "Gothic feel," while ''Publishers Weekly'' claimed the story "straddles the lines between magical realism, fantasy, ghost stories, and horror, with a touch of romance and classic glamour."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-545-43416-4 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.booklistonline.com/Amber-House-Kelly-Moore/pid=5513704 )〕 The authors categorize the trilogy as "a time travel series." ==Plot summary== The book begins at the funeral of Sarah's maternal grandmother, Ida. Sarah and her autistic brother, five-year-old Sammy, have never seen their mother's supposedly-haunted ancestral home; Anne was estranged from Ida, and she plans to sell Amber House and everything in it. Sarah meets her grandmother's nurse, Rose Valois, and Rose's teenaged grandson, Jackson. Sarah feels uncomfortable around Jackson because he seems to know things about her that her grandmother would have been unable to tell him. Jackson mentions a local legend about a fortune of diamonds hidden in Amber House, and offers to help Sarah find them. Even though Anne has already booked the family into a hotel, Sarah and Sammy conspire to hunt for the treasure and force Anne to stay in the house for the few days they will be in town.〔 Soon Sarah is introduced to Senator Robert Hathaway and his teenaged son Richard. Richard knows more about Amber House than Sarah does, and tells her about Deirdre Foster, the mad wife of the sea captain who lost the diamonds in the 1700s. Richard claims it is Deirdre who haunts the estate. Meanwhile, inspired by Sarah and Richard's palpable connection, Anne comes up with the idea of celebrating Sarah's sixteenth birthday, ten days off, with a masquerade ball. The event will be used to advertise the house before Anne puts it on the market.〔 As time goes on, Sarah finds herself spending many of her daytime hours with Richard, and many of her evening hours with Jackson. After Jackson rescues Sarah from an encounter with Deirdre Foster, Sarah confesses to seeing ghosts in Amber House. But Jackson explains that they aren't ghosts; according to Ida, they are what the house remembers, and the house tells its secrets only to the women of Sarah's family. In the days leading up to her birthday, Sarah uses her new "gift" to piece together when and why Anne and Ida drifted apart. She uncovers secrets about the women in her family that suggest she is connected to both Jackson and Richard. And when the past seems to threaten Sarah and Sammy in the present, Sarah must use her gift to find the point where "past and future meet," before the ominous happenings at Amber House end in a fresh tragedy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amber House (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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