The Spirit Child

As a part-time shrink, full-time psychic, and one of only two living Nunnehi--the Cherokee equivalent to a fairy-I have my hands full.

The last thing I need is to take on a new patient...especially when said patient is a psychically gifted nine-year-old pageant queen, who happens to have confessed to murdering her stepfather.

Honestly, how can I, a woman without a flicker of maternal instinct, help a little girl who's a cross between Honey Booboo and the Long Island Medium?

But how can I say n...