When Metro Daily reporter Julia Talben’s sister and nephew are brutally murdered in their suburban home, real estate, crime and family tumble together under the weight of an unimaginable mystery. Joined by detective Declan Grady and plagued by nightmares of her sister, Julia picks up the trail deep into the dark woods of New English and to a haunted house constructed by a man named Jebediah Crone, a house created from rooms of the deceased. We learn that Crone’s creation isn’t just a haunted house but a door to something more evil than could ever be imagined.