Five Mile House

The Thrilling and Atmospheric First Entry in the Leslie Stone Series, Starring a Detective Whose Own Demons Draw her into a Perilous Investigation of a Nineteenth-Century Ghost and a Hundred Years of Lies. In 1889, Eleanor Bly flung herself from the tower of Five Mile House after murdering her seven children. More than a hundred years later, her ghost reaches out to Leslie Stone, a New York cop who has killed a child murderer and is haunted by her actions. New to the town of Wellington-famous for its coven of witches-Leslie becomes obsessed with Eleanor's story, suspecting that the truth may be quite different from local legend. As she digs deeper, uncovering dangerous town secrets, her life and the lives of her children are put into peril. Could Leslie be destined to suffer the same fate as Eleanor Bly? The story of two women separated by a century and linked by the threat of madness and the shadow of guilt, Five Mile House is a classic page-turner and a spellbinding first novel.Novak, Karen is the author of 'Five Mile House' with ISBN 9781582341590 and ISBN 1582341591.