Summary:
After Maureen Coleman is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, her children bring her to live at SummerHome. As her condition deteriorates, siblings Sean Spencer and Meghan Coleman are unsure if they have made the correct decision. They grow concerned when their mother claims to see the ghost of her dead husband, and a series of tragic, unexplained events impact the community.
Now, with the residents of SummerHome believing their complex is haunted, the world-famous Para-Hunters come in to investigate. The ghost hunters soon learn this isn't a typical haunting. Because slinking through the shadows is an evil, unleashed from underneath the Mound nearly 300 years ago, and it doesn't want to go back.
My Thoughts:
I loved this. I came across this novel when I attended a vender fair where the author was present, and left with a copy.
Sean is working at a furniture company, where there is an inside joke that the original owners haunt the building. He is kind of annoyed with his sister Meghan, as she tends to call him while he is at work about their mother. However, this time is slightly different, as their mother has supposedly seen the ghost of her dead husband.
The other characters that live in the assisted living home are so vibrant. Despite the fact that many of them were not big in the overall story, they are extremely memorable, and I absolutely love this.
Later on in the novel, we learn that Maureen is a host to spirits of the past, which is made possible by a demon cat? A lot of weird deaths occur at SummerHome, which brings the presence of ghost hunters. Sean and Meghan are originally against this, but later change their minds. When Maureen dies, the spirits enter Meghan against her will and start trying to go after her brother. The spirits need to kill Sean to finish a ritual.
The only thing that can stop them is at Sean's workplace.
There was one scene towards the end that caught me completely off guard, where possessed Meghan is naked for some reason and sexualizes herself? It just came out of nowhere, and had nothing to do with the plot or the characters.
But other than that, I did thoroughly enjoy this book.
My Rating: 4 stars
