This boy brings doom.Īs Elizabeth's due date approaches, Sam must unravel the mysteries of Wakefield before her sister brings new life into a house marked by death. When it becomes clear the boy is connected to a locked, forgotten room, one which is never entered, Sam realizes this ghost is not like the others. Already navigating her tumultuous relationship with Elizabeth, Sam is even more unsettled by the appearance of a new ghost: a faceless boy who commits disturbing acts-threatening animals, terrorizing other children, and following Sam into the depths of the house wielding a knife. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life.īut when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. They say there's a door in Wakefield that never opens. A terrifying new gothic horror novel about two sisters and a haunted house that never sleeps, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
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