Beneath These Walls

Six months ago Alice's husband tried to kill her. Now she has somewhere to go: an old Victorian house left to her by an uncle she barely knew, big enough for her and her two sons and far enough away to start again.

The town has opinions about the house, and stronger ones about the uncle. What he was supposed to have done there is not something anyone will say plainly, but it is enough that the family draws attention from the day they arrive. Then things start happening inside the house that Alice cannot account for, and the letters begin: not anonymous crank notes, but threats specific enough that hiding stops being an option.

Shade Owens writes the book close to Alice, who has already survived one person who wanted her dead and is now trying to work out whether the danger in this house is the past she brought with her or something that was already here.