by Ronald Malfi
First published 2017
Laurie comes back to the house where her cold, distant father raised her. He recently died, leaving behind rooms that still feel heavy with old secrets. She notices something wrong in the broken moldings and empty picture frames. The moldy greenhouse in the woods seems to watch her. At first she dismisses these feelings as stress from the move. Then her daughter makes a new friend, a little girl who looks exactly like the child who died next door years ago. Each day brings stranger occurrences. Laurie begins to question her own sanity, wondering if she inherited her father's mental illness. But the resemblance between her daughter's playmate and the dead girl becomes impossible to ignore. Laurie must determine whether she's losing her grip on reality or if something dangerous threatens her family.
Genres: suspense, mystery, horror, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: haunted-house, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Greenhouse, Woods
448 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Pinnacle
Content warnings: mental-illness