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Diana Reed, a determined lawyer, takes a job as a landscape architect at the sprawling estate where her brother Brad was last seen. As she investigates the caretaker’s former home, the house’s eerie atmosphere of odd visions, scents, and sounds deepens, revealing unsettling truths. Each discovery escalates the danger, pushing Diana toward a frightening reality she may never be able to escape.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Suspense/Supernatural Suspense
Authors: Barbara Michaels
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