I came to Hemlock House to finish my novel.

Six months ago, my son died. My marriage is over, my book is a year late, and I have nothing left to lose. A writing retreat in the Vermont mountains seems like the perfect place to disappear.

Hemlock House is a vast Gothic pile halfway through a renovation. Power cuts. No signal. A hedge maze you can lose an afternoon in, and a work crew who won’t talk about what happened here.

Then the pages start appearing.

Every morning there are thousands of words on my screen that I have no memory of typing. The writing is the best I have ever done. And the story is beginning to happen to me.

My characters know things I don't. About the house. The girl who vanished. The deaths nobody will explain. And about the morning my son died, the morning I have made myself forget.

Is the house trying to warn me? Or is someone very much alive making sure I never reach the final page?

Every novel needs an ending. I'm terrified of mine.

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