A haunted woman stalked by a serial killer confronts the horrors of fairy tales and the nightmares of real life in a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by a Bram Stoker Awardwinning author.
It started the night journalist Briar Thornes mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicagos South Side.
The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark
Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone.
A serial killer has claimed the lives of fifty-one women in the Chicago area. When Bri starts researching the murders, she meets a stranger who tells her theres more to her sleepless nights than bad dreamsthey hold the key to putting ghosts to rest and stopping a killer. But the killer has caught on and is closing in, and if Bri doesnt answer the call of the dead soon, shell be walking among them.
