1689

Richard Hadlow wants a quiet life and a happy family. He has built a house, Hadlow House, deep in the Kent countryside, and the only thing missing is a wife. He marries Rebecca and expects the plan to hold.

The year is 1689, and England is unsettled while a pretender tries to take the throne. Richard pays the politics no attention. His concern is giving his wife a perfect life in a home that is still new.

The house does not stay peaceful. Whispers drift along its corridors and noises come from nowhere at night, even though the walls are barely finished.

Richard cannot tell what is behind it. He may simply be unlucky, Rebecca may be imagining things, or something buried in the past may be reaching into the present. This is a ghost story of the haunted-house kind, and the first in the Haunting of Hadlow House series, which follows a single house from its building to the present day.

The question is who prevails when the past and the present meet inside these walls, and what it costs Richard.