When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got awayfirst from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scotts mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstancesthe bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful dayare starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscriptan unfinished ghost story written in his fathers own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hiddenand perhaps finish his fathers unspeakable work.From the Trade Paperback edition.