When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?
Scott Mast thought he got away-first from a family haunted by a
dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in
Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown
only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home,
and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.
Fifteen years ago, Scott's mother died in a fire. And now the
shadowy circumstances-the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the
lives ripped apart that fateful day-are starting to be revealed.
The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript-an
unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that
beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless
corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will
uncover all that has been hidden-and perhaps finish his father's
unspeakable work.