Books by Month: September

Margaret and her husband Hal have finally found their dream home – a sprawling Victorian house with an enviable wrap-around porch on a beautiful plot of land. After a lifetime of moving around and with their daughter grown, they’ve finally achieved their dream of making a house their own. They are looking forward to peacefully growing old together, alone in their own place – that is, until September comes around and blood starts pouring down the walls and horrifying ghosts fill the house. This is when most people would run. Margaret is not most people. She has finally found a home, and she won’t let it go without a fight.

The cover of this book sports a quote from Grady Hendrix that says, “Just when you thought you’d seen everything a haunted house novel could do, this book comes along.” I couldn’t agree more! This was such a unique take on the tried-and-true story of a haunted house. Carissa Orlando has taken this horror trope and tweaked it into something funny, uplifting, and inspiring. The cyclical nature of the hauntings mirror the horrors of everyday life that also come and go. You can let yourself be dragged along with the tides, crashing into every rock and fallen log in your path, or you can hold your oars steady and slice your own path through the churning rapids. The choice is always yours to make.