How to sell a haunted house

When Louise finds out her parents are dead, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex-husband and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with the family home, packed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her like no one else in the world.

Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents Louise for her success. Unfortunately, she’s going to need his help to get the house ready for sale. Because getting the house on the market is going to take more than a new coat of paint and a clear-out of a lifetime’s worth of memories.

But some houses don't want to be sold, and their house has other plans for them both.