Nicola Laughton never expected to reach adulthood, having been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a child. However, thanks to medical advances, she lived to be 30 and met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future together. Months after their wedding, Anton died in a horrific car crash, but lived long enough to tell her five words: “I’ll wait for you.”
This last private moment became public when someone from the scene of the accident leaked it to the press – the terminally ill woman holding her dying husband in her arms as he promised to wait for her on the other side. Worse still, this person claimed that it was not Anton who said the words, but his spirit, hovering above his body.
Since her story became public, Nicola has been pestered by spiritualists who promise her closure. In the hope of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a respected medium – a professor of parapsychology. For the séance, they rent the beach house on Lake Erie that once belonged to Anton’s family.
The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start to happen. Locked doors mysteriously open. Swarms of insects cover the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creaking of an old dumbwaiter… in an empty shaft. During all this, she is haunted by nightmares from her past. Because, what the others don’t know, this is not her first contact with the dead. And Nicola is not her real name.
Then she finds the first corpse…
In this atmospheric, suspenseful new ghost story, Kelley Armstrong’s talent is on full display to thrill, terrify, and leave readers wondering how Nicola escapes with her life – if she can. (From St. Martin’s Press)
Kelley Armstrong is the New York Times bestselling author of The darkest powers, Coming darkness And Age of Legends trilogies for teenagers. She is also the author of numerous thriller and fantasy series for adults, three YA thrillers and the Royal Guide to Monster Slaying Series.
