From #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Freida
McFadden comes a sharp, unsettling thriller about two women, past and present,
united by the grounds of an estate and one deadly question: the danger that
haunts them, is it magic – or madness?
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 aging 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 realizes 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.
