After Brian has a heart attack before age 40, he and his
wife Jenny move to the peaceful countryside to escape the stress of the city.
He has reduced his workload and arranged to work from home; Jenny has a job in
the new location. But peace is not what they find; immediately, Brian finds the
basement door opening itself every time he closes- and latches- it. Then a dead
body is found on his property. Next an invisible entity starts pouring him
drinks in the kitchen, as if to say “Here, you’re going to need this!” Problems
accelerate from there, as he finds a graveyard hidden in the basement and an
evil entity in the barn. Things get worse from there, and a couple of psychics
join the fray.
This is short for a novel. I had high hopes at first, with
the opening doors and spooky things. But things moved extremely fast; too fast,
really. Soon there are so many people, dead and alive, that it’s hard to follow
who is who. While there is tension and danger, things get resolved a little too
easily- although not without losses. This is the first of a series, and it has
the flaws that a lot of introductory stories have. The characters aren’t
developed at all, but they have some promise. It kind of reminded me of old
pulp stories, really, which isn’t really a bad thing.
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