The Underhistory

Meer over het boek

People come to visit, and I love to show them around my home, though it’s not the original house. That was destroyed the day my family died. Pera Sinclair was nine when a pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family's grand home, killing everyone inside. As the sole survivor, she became a sympathetic oddity, growing stranger over the years. She rebuilt the sprawling house on the original site, each room telling a piece of her life story and that of the many who perished there, including her sister, murdered a hundred miles away, and a soldier broken by war. Death follows Pera, and she welcomes it as an old friend. Though she doesn’t believe in ghosts, she enjoys sharing ghost stories with her visitors. On the last haunted house tour of the season, an unexpected group of men arrives. One is familiar, but the others are strangers—dangerous men who would harm the family without hesitation and keep an old woman alive only for her usefulness. As Pera shows them around and reveals her home’s secrets, they will discover she is far from helpless. After all, death seems to follow her wherever she goes. Sinister and lyrical, this is a haunting tale of loss, self-preservation, and the darkness beneath.