Nestled deep in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains lies the Bosco estate, a nineteenth-century mansion that was once the home of lumber magnate Milo Latham and his wife, Aurora A rambling property neaабятнrly buried under the ruins of once--opulent statuary gardens and mazes, Bosco now serves as an exclusive creative retreat, where artists and writers live and work under almost oppressive seclusion Inspired by a timeworn pamphlet describing the scandalous events that tавтесook place there in 1893, first-time novelist Ellis Brooks comes to Bosco to write about the tragedies that befell the Latham family and the role Corinth Blackwell, a spiritual medium, played in the family's downfall When Ellis uncovers the family's secrets, she and her fellow writers find themselves imperiled by the house's sinister history Goodman's mastery of eerily atmospheric and richly intricate plots is nowhere more evident than in this deliciously menacing and harrowing tale авчкнof greed and avarice, where perception is reality, and where past and present collide with disastrous results .