Instead of building the house of their dreams, they build a house of horrors.
The author of the bestseller *The Winter People* is back with another chilling story. This time, she takes you into the mysterious forests of Vermont with a married couple who don’t just move into a haunted house – they build one.
Helen and Nate long for a simpler life, so they decide to leave the comfort of the suburbs and move to the countryside to build their dream house with their own hands. But they soon discover that their new plot of land has a dark and mysterious past. Helen, a former history teacher, is soon consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge – a woman who lived and died there a hundred years ago. Helen’s passion for artefacts leads her to incorporate a beam from an old schoolhouse, bricks from a mill, and a mantelpiece from a farmhouse into their new house – objects that draw her into the story of Hattie and her descendants. Three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died under suspicious circumstances.
Helen doesn’t know it yet, but she’s building a haunted house from the ground up. Their new home soon becomes a place of terror and danger. Can a ghost be a murderer? This thrilling ghost story, narrated by the phenomenal Jitka Ježková, will keep you on the edge of your seat, and its conclusion is sure to surprise you.
