The Witch

At 3:41 every morning, someone inside Pemberton House begs Julia Barlow for help.
Everyone has an explanation.
The plumbing is old.
Her grandmother is confused.
Julia is under stress.
And the family has always told stories about the witch who cursed the house in 1692.
Julia does not trust stories.
She trusts records.
After losing her job as an archivist, she returns to her grandmother’s sprawling Massachusetts estate with nowhere else to go. There she finds a sealed north wing, a grandfather clock that stops at the same impossible time every night, and family papers that do not match the history she was raised to believe.
Then she opens the grave of Elinor Dane—the woman supposedly executed for witchcraft more than three centuries ago.
There is no body.
There is modern medical tubing.
And there is an object belonging to a woman who disappeared from Pemberton only twenty-four years earlier.
Now Julia and groundskeeper Eli Voss must uncover what happened to both their missing mothers before the people controlling Pemberton’s secrets decide Julia has learned too much.
Because the house may not be haunted.
But someone has spent years making sure frightened women believe it is.
The Witch is a gothic psychological thriller featuring an ancestral mansion, a missing mother, a false witch legend, hidden rooms, manipulated memories, family secrets, archival investigation, and a final mystery that leaves just enough room for the supernatural.