Molly assures her that her father will always love her and that she, Michael, and Jean would also like to love Heather if only she would let them. Helen likewise accidentally started the fire that killed her parents, making her the only person who understood Heather's guilt. The girls take refuge in the ruins, but the floor collapses beneath them, plunging them into the cellar where they discover the lost skeletal remains of Helen's mother and stepfather.Ī tearful Heather admits that she accidentally started the fire that killed her mother and now fears her father will stop loving her if he learns the truth. Helen releases them to pursue the locket, allowing Molly to drag Heather to shore. Molly tears the locket from Heather's neck and hurls it into the water. Molly leaps in to rescue her, but Helen vows to drown them both for Molly's interference. Fearing she has gone to the pond, Molly searches the woods behind the graveyard and eventually discovers the ruins of Harper House, where Helen is persuading Heather to join her in the pond. One evening while Molly babysits her siblings, Heather sneaks out. Other children have drowned in the same pond over the years, and Molly begins to fear that Helen plans to lure Heather into the pond so that she will stay with Helen forever. Helen was buried under a temporary stone in anticipation of recovering the bodies of her parents, but they were never found, leaving Helen alone. Her mother and stepfather died in a fire Helen escaped the blaze only to panic and run into a nearby pond, where she drowned. Michael and Molly visit the town library and learn that Helen Elizabeth Harper was a real child who died one hundred years before. The ghost disappears when she sees Molly, and Heather threatens revenge on Molly for driving off her friend. Molly follows Heather to the graveyard one night and finds her talking to a ghost child at the tombstone. In secret Heather reveals to Molly that Helen destroyed their belongings and that Helen will do anything Heather asks. The family returns from a trip to town to find all their personal possessions destroyed, except for items belonging to Heather and Dave. Heather gloats that her new friend Helen Elizabeth Harper gave it to her. Later Molly sees Heather wearing an antique silver locket with the same initials.
The dates reveal the grave belongs to a seven-year-old child, but the stone bears only the initials H.E.H. While exploring the graveyard, Heather discovers a tombstone hidden under a tree. Superstitious Molly is also alarmed to learn that their new home is a converted church with an attached graveyard. The tension compounds when the family moves to a small town deep in the country where Molly and Michael will be unable to avoid Heather all summer. Heather constantly lies about Molly and Michael bullying her, causing Dave and Jean to mistrust them. Heather's mother died in a house fire when Heather was three, leaving her clingy and possessive of her father Dave and resentful and jealous of the attention he gives to his new wife Jean and her children. Twelve-year-old Molly and her brother Michael resent their new seven-year-old stepsister Heather. The book deals with the subject of death and suicide, which has led some parents to request that the book be removed from school reading lists and school libraries. The book won a 1989 Young Reader's Choice Award and follows a young girl that must deal with supernatural events that surround her. It was first published on January 1, 1986, through HarperCollins and has since gone through several reprints. Wait Till Helen Comes is a 1986 novel by American author Mary Downing Hahn.
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