The main heroine returns to her childhood home — the old Hazelthorn estate surrounded by legends. She arrives after the death of a relative to settle the inheritance, but from the first days she realizes that something is wrong with the house: objects move, shadows whisper, and the past seems to come alive. Gradually, she uncovers a family secret connected to disappearances and an old curse.

While reading, you feel a growing sense of unease, as if you are walking through the house alongside the heroine, where every creak of the floor sounds like a warning. The atmosphere feels like damp fog soaking through the old walls and the kind of silence where you can hear your own breathing. It is slow and heavy, as if the air itself is filled with dark memories.

ghost story

isolation

memory and guilt

slow-burn tension

melancholic gothic

family secrets

haunted house