Margaret should have known a Victorian at a bargain price came with strings. At first, the house on Hawthorn Street seemed like a dream. Then came the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood, and the ghosts of former residents appear, terrified of whatever lives in the basement.
Most people would run. Margaret isn’t most people. For four years she stayed, determined to hold on to her home even as her husband Hal unraveled. Now he’s vanished, and their daughter Katherine has arrived, unaware of what lurks in the house she once called home.
As September deepens, the hauntings grow stronger and the secrets buried within the walls demand to be kept. To find Hal, Margaret may have to face what even the dead fear.