Some secrets don’t die―they wait.

When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she’s there to check in on her ageing grandmother. Unofficially, she’s hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear.

Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her.

Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia’s bedroom door.

As Julia digs into the house’s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692―and realises the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.

My Thoughts:

As a big fan of Frieda’s books, I was not sure what to expect from this one, it is definitely different from her previous books. This story is about Julia who is struggling with life, no job and no home, she knows she has to return to her families home. But it is not just any home it is a seventeenth century estate that is haunted. The place starts to really creep her pit, unexpected things that she hears or sees really unsettle her but what happens when she starts looking into the history of the house, will the ghost repel against her? it was an interesting concept for the book which flitted from past to present, I would not say it was one of my favourite reads by Freida but it did hold my attention and I was intrigued by the whole concept.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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