Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.
Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father’s death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Adult-minor relationship discussed
- Physical child abuse recounted
- Cheating mentioned
- Nightmares & night terrors
- Murder-suicide mentioned
- Suicide by asphyxia mentioned
- Alcohol consumption
- Prescription pill use
- Cancer mentioned
- Blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a father
- Death of a husband
- Death of a sister
- Death of a child
- Murder mentioned
- Home invasion
- Strangulation
- Disappearance of a child recounted
- Bullying recounted