Ethan Parker - The House Invited Them Back
The House Invited Them Back
A 1903 Gothic Mystery of Omaha, Dead Guests, and a Family with Something to Hide
Ethan Parker
Description
In Omaha, 1903, the dead are supposed to stay dead.When a respectable family inherits an imposing house on the edge of the city, they expect old furniture, unpaid taxes, and perhaps a few unpleasant memories.They do not expect the visitors.The first arrives after midnight.He is dressed in the same black suit he wore for his funeral twenty years earlier.Then another appears.And another.Each is someone the family remembers—and each one should have been impossible to see again.At first, the family blames grief, coincidence, and the strange stories surrounding the house. But when the returned guests begin mentioning secrets that were never meant to be spoken aloud, the family realizes the house may be bringing back more than the dead.Behind locked doors are old photographs, missing letters, a forgotten death, and a family history carefully rewritten for the outside world.Someone has been hiding the truth since before the house was built.Now the house has invited them back.And this time, it intends for everyone to stay.The House Invited Them Back is a dark historical Gothic mystery set in 1903 Omaha, filled with haunted-house atmosphere, family secrets, ghostly visitors, buried crimes, and slow-burning supernatural suspense.
