{"product_id":"9781982177157","title":"Beneath the Stairs","description":"\u003cb\u003e“An enthralling debut by a gifted storyteller!” —Wendy Walker, author of \u003ci\u003eDon’t Look for Me \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut for fans of Jennifer McMahon, Simone St. James, and Chris Bohjalian, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house—the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew in sleepy Sumner’s Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York town tried to bury. One summer night, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into the Octagon House. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTwenty years later, an adult Clare receives word that Abby has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma. With little to lose and still grieving after a personal tragedy, Clare returns to her roots to uncover the darkness responsible for Abby’s accident.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn eerie page-turner, \u003ci\u003eBeneath the Stairs\u003c\/i\u003e is about the trauma that follows us from childhood to adulthood and returning to the beginning to reach the end.","brand":"Jennifer Fawcett (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Atria Books |  Hardback  |  2022-02-22","offer_id":44150973497599,"sku":"9781982177157","price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1e369325-835d-4515-8450-9a96db9acf9f.jpg?v=1644219965","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781982177157","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}