THE UNDERHISTORY

Hauntingly creepy ERIN KELLY A unique jewel of a book LIZZY BARBER A heartfelt and chilling gothic tragedy CHRIS WHITAKERPeople come to visit my home and I love to show them around It s not the original house of course That was destroyed the day my entire family died But I don t think their ghosts know the difference Pera Sinclair was nine the day the pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family s grand home killing everyone inside She was the girl who survived the tragedy a sympathetic oddity growing stranger by the day Over the decades she rebuilt the huge and rambling building on the original site recreating what she had lost each room telling a piece of the story of her life and that of the many people who died there both before and after the disaster Her sister murdered a hundred miles away The soldier broken by war Death follows Pera and she welcomes it in as an old friend And while she doesn t believe in ghosts she s not above telling a ghost story or two to those who come to visit Sinclair House As Pera shows a young family around her home on the last haunted house tour of the season an unexpected group of men arrive One she recognises but the others are strangers But she knows their type all too well Dangerou