INHERITING ELYSE: A Haunting Psychological Thriller of Grief and Obsession

The ghost of a little girl will stop at nothing to claim a mother.After a devastating family tragedy, Melinda retreats with her husband and teenage stepdaughter to the farmhouse her great-aunt left behind. She hopes the quiet of the countryside will soothe her grief. But the house is suffocating, every room crammed with boxes, toys, and dolls. Dozens of dolls, their glassy eyes watching, their porcelain smiles hiding something she can almost feel breathing beneath the silence.Among the clutter, Melinda uncovers a wooden box sealed away like a secret. The longer she keeps it, the more the house shifts around her, whispers seeping through the walls, the dolls seeming to gather closer in the night.Sheriff Kingsley has spent years tracking the unseen currents of darkness running through Maddison, Indiana. He knows evil when it settles on a place, and all signs point to Melinda's farm. And to the box.But Melinda isn't sure what terrifies her more, that something malevolent has claimed her home, or that she might be slipping into the same madness that consumed her great-aunt.Some inheritances can't be escaped. And in this house of dolls, grief has sharp teeth.Thriller readers, like you, are saying, "Inheriting Elyse both made me cry and scared me senseless. A heart breaking and heart pounding haunted thriller."Book 2 in the Maddison, Indiana Thrillers series. Each book can be read alone, but for best enjoyment read them in order. Previously published as Inheriting Elyse by Dawn Merriman.