Vale House

If you heard someone you lost calling your name, would you follow their voice?

Eighteen years after her sister Willa disappeared, Mara Vale returns to Bellwether Island to bury her mother. She wants to get through the funeral. But coming home brings back the questions she could never answer and the guilt she could never leave behind.

Then a hurricane traps her on the island.

Something called the Borrowed can imitate familiar voices and wear familiar faces. It knows how to make you feel safe. For Mara, it offers something far more dangerous than a threat: a reason to believe she might see her sister again.

As the storm closes in, Mara must decide whom to trust when recognition proves nothing. Because turning away could mean losing Willa all over again. And letting her in could mean welcoming something else entirely.

Vale House is Southern Gothic supernatural horror for readers drawn to isolated places, buried family secrets, and the unsettling possibility that they, too, would open the door.