The Severing Line — Sara Cardiff

THERE'S SOMETHING FUNNY ABOUT THIS HOUSE....

"I don't know what it is, but I've felt it from the moment I came here."

The housekeeper stood facing me, color rising high in her cheeks.

"Now you wait a moment, young woman," she said, her voice dangerously calm. "If that's how you feel, you'd best go back where you came from. There was nothing wrong at Highgate until you came!"

But that couldn't be true. Why should my presence turn a perfectly charming Vermont vacation home into a house of horrors?

Did I dare ask my neighbor Guy Flemming? Or my old lover, Judson Cole?

Judson had been very strange to me lately. Could I trust him? Could I trust anyone?