The guest room

Someone is screaming Claire’s name. Except it isn’t her name.

Blackbriar House was supposed to be a fresh start for Claire and her husband, Ethan. Instead, the old coastal home feels crowded with warnings: a sealed upstairs door, a photograph hidden in a locked drawer, and a woman the family refuses to discuss.

When the forbidden guest room opens and Claire finds blood beside its shattered window, every explanation Ethan has given her begins to collapse. His mother knows more than she admits. His former wife is still terrified. And somewhere inside the house is the truth about Vivian, the sister who vanished years ago.

The deeper Claire searches, the clearer it becomes that someone has spent years protecting the secret behind that door. Someone who is watching her now.

But in Blackbriar House, finding the missing woman may be easier than surviving the truth.