Wings to the Kingdom -- Cherie Priest

Wings to the Kingdom is the sequel to Four and Twenty Blackbirds. 

Eden Moore is constantly being accosted by people who want her to contact their dead loved ones.  Being a mostly sympathetic person, she always feels that she needs to take the time to explain that no, her talent doesn't work like that -- and every single time, the supplicant lashes out at her and she ends up having to defend herself. 

It's exhausting.

So when the ghosts of Civil War soldiers begin to appear at a local battlefield, it's understandable that she'd want nothing to do with it.

Of course, Eden's life being Eden's life, it isn't long before she's involved with not only the pointing soldiers, but also a pair of paranormal investigators and the mysterious entity known as Old Green Eyes.  To complicate things, her crazy cousin won't stop calling.

Super-solid sequel.  Different, in that Eden is dealing with the repercussions of her abilities, but that made me enjoy it all the more.

I loved this bit, in which Cherie Priest manages to use the conventions of the horror genre and mock them at the same time:

"It's about Moccasin Bend.  I heard someplace that it used to be--" I hesitated, because I felt stupid saying it out loud here the whole world could hear me.  "Did it really used to be an Indian burial ground?"

One of the chess players cocked an eyebrow and nodded.  Karl did the same.  "Back in the day, it was a sacred site for the Cherokee people.  There was a lot of controversy over the government putting the hospital there.  It's protected ground, or so they say.  Like a park, I think.  But once upon a time, yes, it was holy territory.

"You're joking."

"'Fraid not."

"So what you're telling me is that the government built . . . a mental hospital . . . on top of a sacred Indian burial ground?"

"Yes ma'am."

I blinked slowly and shook my head.  "Had these people never seen a horror movie?  Never read any Stephen King?"

Loved it.  As with the first book, recommended for those who find the description even vaguely interesting!