Following a string of affairs Karl & Eleanor are giving their marriage one last shot they&re moving with their twelve-year-old daughter Irina from Brooklyn to a newly renovated apparently charming old house near the upstate New York town of Broken River Before their arrival the house stood empty for over a decade The reason is no secret Twelve years previously a brutal double murder took place there a young couple killed in front of their child The crime was never solved & most locals consider the house cursed The family may have left the deceptions of their city life behind them but all three are still lying to each other & to themselves Before long the family&s duplicity will unleash forces none of them could possibly have anticipated putting them in mortal danger This new novel by America&s master of literary rule-breaking is part thriller part family drama part Gothic horror
- & like all JRobert Lennon&s novels it shows the consequences of human deceitfulness & the dreadful force the past can exert on the present