01930cam a2200313 4500 428567616 TxAuBib 20200623120000.0 180813s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 2018037320 9780385687065 0385687060 9780385541381 0385541384 TxAuBib McMahon, Jennifer. The Invited / by Jennifer McMahon. First Edition. New York : Doubleday, 2019. 353 p ; 25 cm. A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of THE WINTER PEOPLE returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it's too late... In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter. Nearly a century later, a young married couple, Helen and Nate abandon the comforts of suburbia to begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams on the same forty-four acres of rural land where Hattie once lived. When they discover that this charming property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by Hattie's story and the tragic legend of her descendants, three generations of "Breckenridge women," each of whom died amid suspicion, and who seem to still be seeking something elusive and dangerous in the present day. 20200623. Haunted houses Fiction. Suspense fiction. Ghost stories. lcgft Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft TXGID