The New York Times bestselling writer of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition from the Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane-a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives from the living and the useless intersect in shocking, unexpected, and moving ways.

Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country home full of areas packed with the detritus of the about Areas: A Book life time. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, stressed teenage child Trenton, and unforgiving girl Minna-have arrived because of their inheritance.

However the Walkers are not alone. Prim Alice and the cynical Sandra, lengthy dead former citizens bound to the home, linger within its claustrophobic wall space. Jostling for space, storage, and supremacy, they observe the family, trading barbs and reminiscences about their past lives. Though their voices cannot be noticed, Alice and Sandra speak through the house itself-in the hiss of the radiator, a creak in the stairs, the dimming of the light bulb.

The living and dead are each haunted by painful truths which will soon surface with explosive force. When a fresh ghost appears, and Trenton begins to communicate with her, the soul and human worlds collide-with cataclysmic results.

Elegantly constructed and brilliantly paced, Rooms is an enticing and imaginative ghost story and a searing family drama that is as haunting since it is resonant.