After leaving an abusive relationship, Abby visits an old friend on her way to her mother’s in Florida.
Hayden’s Uncle Jack is renovating a building into
high-end apartments in town, and with the lure of living rent-free in a
beautiful loft, Abby becomes the caretaker with the entire building all to
herself.
Abby hears strange sounds in the building. Shadows move as if they’re alive. Led to believe the structure
was previously a school, Abby is told by the last living employee of Harper’s Grove that the building
used to be a home for the infirm and unwanted children, the Dead Pennies of society, unfit for circulation.
Abby and Hayden search for the cause of the strange events at Harper’s Grove, and find out why the
spirits of the dead children won’t sleep until they get vengeance.
Abby hears strange sounds in the building. Shadows move as if they’re alive. Led to believe the structure
was previously a school, Abby is told by the last living employee of Harper’s Grove that the building
used to be a home for the infirm and unwanted children, the Dead Pennies of society, unfit for circulation.
Abby and Hayden search for the cause of the strange events at Harper’s Grove, and find out why the
spirits of the dead children won’t sleep until they get vengeance.
Abby has finally called it quits on an abusive relationship with a drug addicted creep. She packs what will fit in her car and heads to her mother's house although she really doesn't want to stay with her. On the way, she speaks to an old friend and decides to stop at his loft instead. He offers up what sounds like a great alternative to her mother's house. She can stay rent-free in a gorgeous apartment in a huge empty building while his uncle sorts through some red tape before renovations can continue to turn the rest into apartments.
It seems like the answer to all her problems. What she doesn't know, is that this building used to be an institution for physically and mentally disabled children, some of whom never moved on after death.
This was a chilling, multifaceted, ghost story. The spine tingling suspense comes from both the living and the dead. There is an unnerving encounter with a strange man before Abby even moves in, but the intricately woven back story of the building's days as a home to unwanted children was both heart-breaking and enraging due to its realistic portrayal of life for the residents of that kind of institution in those days.
I felt for Abby and her circumstances, but it was the backstory of the building's dark past that really twisted my guts and kept me awake nights.
Robert Ford is now on my short list of must read authors.
My thanks to Cemetery Dance Publications.
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