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Sometimes to survive, you have to give up part of yourself.
At fourteen, Abigail has no answer to the question of who she really is. Her life has been consumed by caring for her damaged mother. When tragedy strikes, she is uprooted from her bleak city flat and sent to live at her estranged uncle’s country estate.
Silenus House is a maze of shadowed corridors and echoing rooms, filled with artifacts that hint at sinister histories. For the first time, Abigail has the chance to experience the childhood she has been denied. But the estate’s wealth comes with a darkness she cannot ignore.
Her uncle is welcoming, but his three children watch Abigail with an unsettling intensity, as if weighing her for something she does not yet understand. At night, strange noises seep through the walls. And as she is drawn deeper into the family’s disturbing traditions, Abigail realises her arrival may not be an act of kindness at all, but the continuation of a legacy that demands sacrifice.
Ben Cheetham is an award-winning writer with a passion for horror and crime fiction. His novels have been widely published around the world. In 2011 he self-published Blood Guilt. The novel went on to reach no.2 in the national eBook download chart, selling well over 150000 copies. In 2012 it was picked up for publication by Head of Zeus. Since then, Head of Zeus has published three more of Ben’s novels – Angel of Death, Justice for the Damned and Spider’s Web. In 2016 his novel The Lost Ones was published by Thomas & Mercer. Ben lives in Sheffield, England, where he spends most of his time shut away in his study racking his brain for the next paragraph, the next sentence, the next word...