Carly Reagon

Obsession is a sicknessFor which there is no cure.Suffolk, 1847.Charles Keller needs to escape London, so he leaps when he is offered a position as surgeon at a country infirmary for the poor. But St Cross is not as he expected, and he soon finds himself reflecting on a promise he once made. A promise to do no harm. Some promises are made to be broken.Suffolk, 2023.Liam has brought his family to an old country house for their family holiday, a former infirmary called St Cross. He can''t tell them why they are really here, but he hopes that, after this, he can start again. No more lies, no more secrets. But what Liam doesn''t know is that the house is keeping secrets of its own.And some secrets are so dark, they should never be brought to light.

***The haunting, unbearably tense ghost story from the author of The Toll House***Looking for more Carly Reagon? Her electrifying new ghostly thriller, The Infirmary, is available to pre-order now_________''Powerful, haunting and truly terrifying'' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of We Begin at the End''Beautifully written and epically scary'' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of The Leviathan ''Carly Reagon is one to watch'' C. J. COOKE, author of A Haunting in the Arctic This is the ghost story that won''t let you go . . .Kyle can barely remember his grandfather. So when they inherit his old house - a damp, secluded tower on the edge of a Welsh mountain village - Kyle and his wife, Lydia, feel they are moving into the home of a stranger.From the start, Lydia hates the house: the disturbing paintings in the attic, the hostility of the locals, the peculiar light that pours through the kitchen window. Kyle thinks Lydia needs a break from London, from the nightmares and the panic attacks. But over the coming weeks, Lydia''s sense of dread only becomes more insistent, whilst Kyle is drawn to the house in ways he cannot explain.Yet as winter approaches, cutting them off, the house must become their refuge. For outside, on the mountain, something is calling to them.Something that has waited decades, and wants to be let in.