Beneath These Walls

Six months after her husband tried to kill her, Alice inherits an old Victorian house from an uncle she barely knew. It is roomy enough for her and her two sons, and distant enough to start over. She takes it.

The town already has views about the house, and harsher ones about the uncle. Nobody states plainly what he is supposed to have done there, but the rumour is enough to draw eyes to the family from the day they arrive.

Then events begin inside the house that Alice cannot explain. Letters follow. They are not vague crank notes: each one carries a threat specific enough that keeping her head down is no longer a choice.

The book stays close to Alice's point of view, as a woman who has already survived one person who wanted her dead. She has to decide whether the danger now closing in is the past she carried with her or something that was in the house before she came. It reads as a haunted-house story with a domestic-threat edge.