Shadows in the Past

A house with a dark secret.A grieving daughter determined to carry out her parents' last wishes.A grandmother with something to hide…Chloe Thomas brushes aside her grandmother's pleas that she stay away from Truscott House, and moves in with her friend Emily to finish the project her parents had begun before their death-the renovation of a property that had been in the family for a century. Sure: she knows that the locals say it's haunted. She brushes that aside; kids will be kids, and so-called haunted houses are practically a rite of childhood, aren't they?But it isn't long before Chloe has to eat her words, and admit that something doesn't seem want them there-but who? Or what? And why? Growing increasingly afraid, she has to dig deep to find the courage to continue, with a terrified friend begging her to leave and as the truth about her grandmother's childhood is revealed. Does she have what it takes to see this out, risking another terrible loss for her grandmother? Or is it possible to reverse the ill fortune of decades, and make Truscott House a happy home once more?She calls in the help of a ghost-hunter, and only then does she understand the strength of the unquiet spirit in her home-and that there are other innocents who have much at stake.

Little Isabella Burnside is fading away, and no matter how many specialists her mother takes her to, they can't pinpoint the problem. Her twin brother, Jack-once open and gregarious-can now barely communicate. Nobody knows what is wrong with the Burnside twins. They keep talking about ghosts, but their mother will have none of it. "It's just your imagination," she tells them: "just bad dreams."Isabella's father, desperate to help his children, calls in Lincoln Sweeney and his partner Katie Dyer, paranormal investigators, to see if there is any basis for his children's nightmares. His wife Helena, intent on climbing the social ladder now that they're in their expensive house-with-a-history, is furious: she can see her dreams dissolving before her eyes. Then disaster strikes. Lincoln disappears, and his twin, Tara, senses immediately that something unspeakable has happened to him. She races through the night to where he was last seen, and she and his partner Katie set about trying to unravel the mystery. Where is Lincoln? Is he on this plane or the next? Is it really a vengeful ghost that has enticed him to a fate worse than death-or is he really dead? Blocked at every turn by Helena Burnside, battling to find out the truth, Tara and Katie doggedly keep following the clues until they realise, with horror, just what they are facing.

Jodie Wyatt is missing. Nick, her husband and a police detective, is convinced that her disappearance is payback from a criminal he's put away. His son Josh knows differently. He has always been able to see and hear those on the other side, and he is certain that a malevolent spirit inhabits Wyatt House. But how can he convince his father? Josh finds an ally in his grandfather, Richard, and the two of them seek help from Katie Dyer, a paranormal investigator. Bit by bit, Katie and Josh work to put together the pieces of the puzzle-while Jodie's husband Nick stubbornly follows police procedure.Meanwhile, at Wyatt House, the threat increases hour by hour.It's a race against time to find Jodie, battling an invisible enemy all the way.