A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling
author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell
the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted
house--they build one. . . .
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the
comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural
land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself
project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that
this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former
history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie
Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her
passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into
the house--a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel
from a farmhouse--objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie
and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of
whom died suspiciously. As the building project progresses, the house
will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now
haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable
danger.
