From bestselling horror author and queen of gothic mysteries Darcy Coates comes a chilling story about the shadows of dead things—and how they haunt the living. How long could you survive?Mara has spent her entire life rejecting the world of spirits and shadows. Raised by spiritualists and scam mediums, she craves a future grounded in logic—far from the superstitions she's learned to despise. But when Mara and her fiancé move into Blackwood House, a sprawling estate marked by tragedy and an irresistible price, her hard-won skepticism is put to the test.Inside Blackwood House, whispers echo through empty rooms and cold spots appear without warning. As the house's chilling secrets come to light, Mara is drawn into a relentless psychological struggle between disbelief and growing terror. What begins as an escape from her past soon becomes a fight for sanity, as the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur with every turn of the key.If you crave haunted house thrillers and goth