In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire a door has long been sealed shut with six-inch-long carriage boltsxAxAxA xA The homes new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughtersxATogether they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip an airline pilot has to ditch his -seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due to double engine failure The body count Thirty-nine xAxAxAxA xA What follow is a riveting ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling award-winning novelist Chris Bohjalian a palpable sense of place meticulous research an unerring sense of the demons that drive us and characters we care about deeply The difference this time Some of those characters are dead.