From #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a sharp, unsettling thriller about two women, past and present, united by the grounds of an estate and one deadly question: the danger that haunts them, is it magic – or madness?After losing her job and her apartment, Julia Barlow retreats to her family’s ancestral estate in Massachusetts—a sprawling seventeenth-century mansion known as Pemberton. But what she expects to be a quiet refuge quickly turns sinister. Because the grandfather clock stops every night at 3:41 a.m. The lights won’t stop flickering. And someone—or something—keeps crying outside her bedroom door.As Julia digs into the house’s history, she uncovers the story of Caroline Eldridge, a young wife accused of witchcraft in 1692 and burned at the stake. And when Julia finds human bones buried in the backyard, she realizes her great-aunt is hiding more than family folklore and the lines between past and present might be far b
