<P><B>A chilling ghost story with a twist: The <I>New York Times</I> best-selling author of <I>The Winter People</I> returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house — they build one....</B></P><P>In a quest for a simpler life Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on 44 acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams.</P><P>When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past Helen a former history teacher becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house — a beam from an old schoolroom bricks from a mill a mantel from a farmhouse - objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants three generations of Breckenridge women each of whom died suspiciously.</P><P>As the building project progresses the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home now haunted that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.</P>
