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Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, having been diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then, medical advances allowed her to live into her thirties, and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future together. But only months after getting married, Anton... Read More
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From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding supernatural horror involving a haunted-house, seances, lost loved ones, and a spirit out for blood...

From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding supernatural horror involving a haunted-house, seances, lost loved ones, and a spirit out for blood...

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Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, having been diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then, medical advances allowed her to live into her thirties, and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future together. But only months after getting married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, uttering to her with his final breath, I'll be waiting for you.

Then, that private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press. Worse, that person claimed it wasn't Anton who said the words but his ghost, hovering over his body.

Since their story went public, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium to perform a sΓ©ance at the Lake Erie beach house Anton's family once owned.

The medium has barely begun when things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. And, unbeknownst to the others, this isn't Nicola's first time contacting the dead as she's quickly haunted by nightmares of her past. She hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter in an empty shaft. That's when she finds the first body...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781250397171

Publisher: St Martin's Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 November 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 352

About the Author

KELLEY ARMSTRONG is the author of over 50 novels in mystery, fantasy and horror. She believes experience is the best teacher, though she's been told this shouldn't apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.

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