The Quieting

Three buyers tried to live in the most beautiful house in Cold Harbor. Two fled. The third was found drowned in a dry room.

Maren Vance quiets haunted houses for a living. She finds the grief a house is holding, says the truth out loud, and lets the dead move on. Most houses aren't dangerous.

Halcyon is not most houses.

It sits above a black lake, beautiful and patient, and no one who stays the night stays long. Maren has until Monday to settle it before a young family moves in - and the deeper she digs, the worse the truth becomes. A drowning the town called an accident. A name everyone has been paid to forget. And the one detail she can't explain: Halcyon is the single house her own grandmother never finished - and the one page torn out of a lifetime of records.

Someone in Cold Harbor knows what happened here. Someone needs it kept quiet. And the house has been waiting a very long time for somebody who will finally listen.

Some houses don't let go. Halcyon pulls you under.

A slow-burn gothic mystery for readers who love atmospheric haunted-house suspense and a fierce, lonely heroine - in the vein of The Only One Left, The September House, and Home Before Dark.