The Fourth House

<p><strong>In <em>The Fourth House</em> the light only reveals what the dark wants you to see. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> A village's disturbing past. A dilapidated mansion shrouded in shadows. Whispers of a ghost story long forgotten-until an eerily familiar woman arrives reigniting its sinister legacy in a tale hailed as Suspenseful . . . Impressively well crafted . . . Genuinely creepy-and unpredictable to boot. -</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sunny Johnson has it all: a fulfilling career teaching </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>abnormal psychology</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a devoted psychiatrist husband and the joy of new motherhood. But horrifying visions within a crumbling mansion by water dismissed as </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>peripartum psychosis </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>shatter her reality. When Taylor threatens to take their newborn daughter Rebecca from her Sunny flees with the child to a distant riverside village searching for refuge and answers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There she finds </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Searchlight a decaying former funeral home turned bed and breakfast</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> that feels pulled from her fragmented memories. Its dank halls murmur secrets of a </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>tragic past ghostly legends</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the locals won't speak of and dusty diaries filled with entries seem to echo her own unraveling.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But Sunny doesn't believe in </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>apparitions or past lives</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> yet she can't shake the feeling she's been there before. Every flicker of clarity pulls her deeper into the shadows of her mind-and closer to deadly truths that could sever her bond with Rebecca the fragile thread anchoring her to reality . . . if Taylor doesn't find them first. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Searchlight the line between the real and the imagined is as thin as a candle's flame-and what binds Sunny to its past may be the most dangerous ghost of all.</span></p><p></p><p></p>