HOME BEFORE DARK

u003cbu003eu003cbu003eu003cbu003eu003cbu003eTHE INSTANT u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMES u003c/iu003eBESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003c/bu003eu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eOne of . . . u003cpu003e u003ciu003eHuff Postu003c/iu003e's "10 Of The Most Anticipated Book Releases Of June 2020" - u003ciu003eGood Housekeepingu003c/iu003e's "The 35 Best Books of 2020 to Add to Your Reading List" - u003ciu003eTravel + Leisureu003c/iu003e's "20 Most Anticipated Summer 2020 Books" - u003ciu003ePopSugaru003c/iu003e's 17 Most Anticipated Summer Thrillers - u003ciu003eWorking Motheru003c/iu003e's "The 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2020" - u003ciu003eNewsweeku003c/iu003e's 20 most anticipated summer reads - u003ciu003ePublishers Weekly's "u003c/iu003eSummer Reads 2020" - u003ciu003eBookPageu003c/iu003e's "2020 Most Anticipated Thrillers and Mysteries" - Today.com's "16 highly anticipated summer reads" - u003ciu003eThe Star Tribuneu003c/iu003e's "Great Escapes" summer reads u003cbu003e- u003ciu003eBookPageu003c/iu003e's "Private Eye July" u003cbu003e- u003c/bu003eu003ciu003eUSA Todayu003c/iu003e's"Summer reading guide: 20 new books you won't want to miss" u003cbu003e-u003c/bu003e u003cbu003eu003ciu003eCrimeReadsu003c/iu003e "10 New Books Coming Out This Week" u003cbu003e- u003c/bu003eu003ciu003eBuzzfeedu003c/iu003e "17 New Thrillers That Will Keep Your Summer Exciting" u003cbu003e- The Everygirl "30 Books That Should Be on Your Summer Reading List."u003c/bu003eu003c/bu003eu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eIn the latest thriller from u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father's bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound--and dangerous--secrets hidden within its walls?u003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003eWhat was it like? Living in that house. u003cpu003e u003c/iu003eMaggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called u003ciu003eHouse of Horrorsu003c/iu003e. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling u003ciu003eThe Amityville Horroru003c/iu003e in popularity--and skepticism. u003cpu003e Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. But she also doesn't believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don't exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father's death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in u003ciu003eHouse of Horrorsu003c/iu003e, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks tou003ciu003e u003c/iu003eMaggie's father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself--a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father's book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. u003cpu003e Alternating between Maggie's uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father's book, u003ciu003eHome Before Darku003c/iu003e is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman's quest to uncover them--even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.