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

Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future… together. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, “I’ll be waiting for you.”

That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press—the terminally ill woman holding her dying husband as he promised to wait for her on the other side. 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—a professor of parapsychology. For the séance, they rent the Lake Erie beach house that Anton’s family once owned.

The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter…in an empty shaft. Throughout it all she’s haunted by nightmares of her past. Because, unbeknownst to the others, this isn’t her first time contacting the dead. And Nicola isn’t her real name.

That’s when she finds the first body....

In this atmospheric, thrilling new ghost story, Kelley Armstrong's full talents are on display to thrill, chill and leave the reader guessing how Nicola escapes with her life--if she can.

Nicola is a grieving widow whose husband’s death became a viral story as a witness to their car accident relayed how, as he lay dying, Anton had said to her “I’ll be waiting”.  It wasn’t supposed to be that way, Nic has CF and she was supposed to die first, not be left behind mourning a life she should have had. As she searches for contact with Anton in an attempt to prove to herself that he is waiting for her she eventually finds herself at a make-or-break weekend seance with a reputable medium, her brother-in-law and a friend from the grief group in an old beach home that once belonged to Anton’s family. From the start things seem to point to Anton’s presence but also to a malevolent spirit as well that may be tied to a tragedy from Nicola’s past - and then they find a body

Generally I don’t read horror but I have become accustomed to picking up any book that has Kelley Armstrong’s name on it and once again I was not disappointed. More a ghost story than what I think of as horror; the suspense builds as we slowly learn about the tragedy in Nic’s past and start to see how it links to the current events that are gradually becoming more dangerous for Nicola while leaving her unsure who she can, and cannot, trust.  I read this in one sitting, pulled along from page to page with a need to know what happened next. Was Anton truly the love of her life or was he more involved in the tragedy from the past than she wants to know?  Highly recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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