Published on June 30, 2020 by Dutton Books
Original title: Home before dark
ISBN: 1524745170 (ISBN13: 9781524745172)
Language of publication: English
Context: Vermont (United States)
Goodreads Summary: “How was it?” Live in this house.
Maggie Holt is used to these kinds of questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a sprawling Victorian estate in the woods of Vermont. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal that Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. Its tale of ghostly events and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity and skepticism.
Today, Maggie is a restorer of old houses and too young to remember the events mentioned in her father's book. But she doesn't believe a word of it either. After all, ghosts don't exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father's death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But his return home is anything but warm. Characters from the past, recounted in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And the locals are not happy that their small town has become infamous thanks to Maggie's father. Even more disturbing is Baneberry Hall itself, a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange events straight out of her father's book, she begins to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction.
In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father's best-selling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as his father claimed? Or are there more earthly – and more dangerous – secrets hidden within its walls?
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