The Folcroft Ghosts

After an accident puts their mother in the hospital, Tara and her younger brother Kyle are sent to live with their grandparents, May and Peter Folcroft. The children have never met them. The couple's home is a rambling house at the foot of the mountains.

May and Peter seem warm at first, but the house feels wrong almost from the start. A swing moves by itself. Doors slam in the night, and one bedroom stays locked. The family also talks about a sister who drowned in the lake many years ago.

A storm then isolates the household from everyone outside. Tara has two threats to weigh: the ghosts that haunt the rooms and the grandparents who live among them. Her job is to keep Kyle safe while she works out the family secret that has persisted through generations.

The unease in this haunted house story tightens once the storm hems the characters in, with a teenage girl at its center. The edition from Poisoned Pen Press, published in 2020, adds three bonus stories.