Her dream house is about to become a house of nightmares…

From the moment Lacey glimpses the dusty-rose colonial cottage using its angled dormer windows and quaint wooden shutters, she knows she’s found her dream house. Walking through its beautiful rooms, the expectant mother can easily see her potential children sitting on the circular bottom step of the house’s superbly carved staircase, and she imagines them playing beneath the huge maple tree in the warm SC sun. It doesn’t matter to Lacey about Starter House: A Novel and her hubby, Eric, that people had passed away there years before.

But shortly their warm and welcoming home turns cold. There is certainly something malevolent within the walls-a disturbing presence that only Lacey can feeling. And there is certainly Drew, a challenging and jealous little son who mysteriously appears when Lacey can be alone. Protective of the enigmatic child who reminds her from the stressed students she used to teach, Lacey bakes cookies and has video games to amuse him. However, as she quickly discovers, Drew is normally unpredictable-and dangerous.

Fearing on her behalf baby’s safety, Lacey sets out to uncover the truth about Drew and her dream house-a search for answers that calls for her in to the past, in to the lives of a long-dead family whose tragic secrets could demolish her. To save her loved ones, Lacey must find a way to place a terrifying bad to rest…before she, Eric, and the youngster become its next victims.