Critical Praise

"Chilly. Laken’s eerily enticing home with a bloody past forces its present and past inhabitants into a kind of spooked hopelessness, squashing any possibility of fulfilling the American dream. Laken juggles multiple story lines with ease."

—Entertainment Weekly

"The perfect haunted house story for these unnerving times… Having assembled the plot machinery for a sturdy thriller, Laken does none of the expected things. Instead, she uses the framework to support an ambitious study of people in search of a home --- “home’’ being a metaphor for the elusive something that defines and validates the self."

—The New York Times