This chilling novel from your bestselling, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper using the twisty, contemporary edge of the.S.A. Harrison’s The Silent Wife-a harrowing story of mental suspense set in New York’s Hudson Valley.

When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with their former university city in the Hudson River valley, they on the subject of The Widow’s Home are hoping for rejuvenation-of their relationship, their cost savings, and Jess’s writing career.

They take a caretaker’s job at Riven House, a crumbling estate and the house of their old college writing professor. While Clare once experienced dreams to be a article writer, those plans fell by the wayside when Jess produced a big, splashy literary debut within their twenties. It’s been years, now, since his 1st novel. The progress is definitely spent. Clare’s wish would be that the pastoral beauty and nostalgia from the Hudson Valley will offer you some inspiration.

But their new lease of life isn’t all quaint town libraries and fragrant apple orchards. There is a haunting pall that hangs over Riven House like a funeral veil. Something is just not right. Soon, Clare begins to hear babies crying during the night, find strange statistics in fog at the edge of their house. Diving in to the history of the area, she realizes that Riven Home includes a dark and anguished past. And whatever this thing is-this menacing force that destroys the inhabitants from the estate-it seems to be after Clare next…