White House Ghost

In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever. Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter...

Good fortune has smiled on the White family in the form of White House. A beautiful white cottage on the water side of a Scottish loch, surrounded by pastoral fields. Idyllic. Maybe. An ancestral blessing or a hellish curse? An ordinary family thrown unwittingly into their familial past. Will this be a happening of great fortune, inviting the Whites and their two boys into the cozy bosom of the highlands, or a demonic inheritance contracted by evil minions of the most unexpected kind?

When fiery Bridget Cummings advertised for a lodger, she did not expect a policeman to apply for the room. She wasn't fond of the coppers, believing them to be traitors to the poor of Whitechapel, but her younger brother and sister moved PC Fred Billings in the moment Bridget's back was turned, and she seemed to have little say in the matter. Still, she had to admit that she was glad of his company in the walk back from her late-night washing up job, particularly when a young girl was found in a nearby street with her throat cut.