The Rooms Below

Daniel and Mara Mercer thought Blackthorn House would be a fresh start.An enormous Victorian. Eleven quiet acres. A price too good to refuse.Then their seven-year-old daughter begins talking to a woman who isn't there.Footsteps move through empty rooms. Objects disappear and return in places they were never left. And behind the basement shelving, Daniel discovers a door that should not exist.Beyond it lies a seventh room-larger than the house could possibly contain.Its walls are lined with photographs of the families who lived at Blackthorn before them. But among the old photographs are new ones.Photographs of the Mercers.Some show moments that haven't happened yet.And the final photograph shows only one of them left.As Blackthorn begins turning the family's memories, fears, and secrets against them, Daniel must uncover what happened inside the house more than a century ago-and understand what the room beneath it wants-before his family becomes another part of its history.Some houses keep more than secrets.