The House on Blackthorn Lane: A Modern Gothic Mystery of Family Secrets and Hidden Rooms

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Eleanor Crane is a forensic architect—a specialist in reading the hidden stories that buildings tell. When she inherits Blackthorn House, a decaying Victorian Gothic mansion in the Suffolk countryside, she expects a simple survey. Instead, she finds walls that are too thick, rooms that don't appear on any plan, and a locked iron door in the cellar that hasn't been opened in decades.

The house holds the secrets of her grandfather, Vincent Blackthorn—a respected town mortician who was secretly a serial predator. For forty years, he used the house's hidden passages and sealed chambers to conceal his crimes. His wife Elara knew, but fear kept her silent. Their daughter Lily witnessed a murder and escaped with nothing but an iron key—a key she kept all her life but never used.

Now Nell has that key. And the house is speaking to her.

Tapping in the walls. Messages in the dust. The voices of the dead, trapped in twelve iron chambers, waiting to be freed. But something else is waiting too—something far older than Vincent, bound beneath the cellar in a Neolithic ritual site. The Dreamer. An ancient entity that has been fed by generations of sacrifice. And a man named James Vance, who has continued Vincent's work for thirty years, will do anything to keep the Dreamer sleeping.

The House on Blackthorn Lane is a modern Gothic mystery where architecture becomes evidence, the dead refuse to be silent, and one woman must use her forensic skills to uncover a decades-long conspiracy—before she becomes its final victim.

Perfect for fans of Simone St. James, Ruth Ware, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.