With her own life on pause, Sophie is happy to accept an invitation to visit her old friend Caroline. The fact that Caroline is staying at her family’s glorious beach house is just the icing on the cake. Sophie expects some girl time as the old friends get reacquainted, but Caroline seems like a shadow of her old self, tense, nervous, and always disappearing somewhere. Caroline’s daughter Lucy has problems of her own, the girl has selective mutism and seems afraid of her own shadow. There are plenty of secrets in this home, but uncovering them will come at a cost. This book has a hint of the Gothic, a little Victoria Holt that will delight fans of the genre