Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house?and a marriage?gone terribly wrong.
After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking?and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.
Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily's alone, so are they happening at all? She's still medically fragile; her postsepsis condition can cause hallucinatory side effects, which means she can't fully trust her own senses. Freddie doesn't notice anything odd and is happy with their chance at a fresh start.
Emily, however, starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it, though she can find no evidence of a wrongful death. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge.
But if the house has secrets, so do Emily and her husband.
And they live here now.
After a holiday accident that nearly kills her, 32-year old Emily and her husband Freddie move from London into Larkin Lodge, a beautiful country house on remote Dartmoor, far away from their lives and friends in London. It should help heal her and be a wonderful fresh start but soon after moving in, Emily starts to feel that there's something wrong.
There's a terrible presence emanating from the room on the third floor. While Freddie doesn't sense anything wrong, Emily can't bear to even step across the threshold, and as the darkness she feels in the room upstairs spreads like mould further into the building, and strange occurrences start happening, Emily becomes convinced that someone was murdered in the house and is now haunting it.
But there are no records of any one ever dying in the property, not even old in their beds. In fact, it's been a happy home for all who've lived here. Except, it seems, for them. Ever since they moved into the house, their marriage has started to crumble. There's a sense of distrust. With Freddie growing distant and irritable and dismissing her concerns about the house as part of her post-sepsis syndrome, and with cracks in their relationship building with each day, Emily starts doing some digging into the secrets of Larkin Lodge and the locals who've lived there.
But how can she solve a murder that never happened? And can she solve it in time to prevent another?
