From award-winning novelist Wendy Webb comes a spine-tingling, modern-day haunted house story collection on Lake Superior.

Grace Alban has spent twenty years from her childhood house, the stately Alban House for the shores of Lake Superior-for factors she’d rather forget. But when her mother’s unpredicted death brings Grace and her teenage little girl home, she discovers more than simply her own personal demons haunting the halls and passageways of Alban Home.

Long-buried family secrets, a packet of outdated about The Fate of Mercy Alban love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Sophistication into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House where a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared with out a trace. That night continues to be shrouded in secrecy with the powerful Alban family for many of these years, and Elegance realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the concealed passages of Alban House. Her mother was intending to tell the truth about that evening to a reporter on the day she died. Could it have already been murder, or was she a sufferer of the intended Alban curse? With the help of the disarmingly kind-and attractive-Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her house and its own curse before she and her girl become the next victims.

Wendy Webb has woven a suspenseful mystery that skillfully skirts the boundary between what is paranormal and what is psychological.