After the tragic death of her son, Katherine is looking for a new start in Tennessee. Alston House seems like just the cure. It needs a lot of work but she is sure that she can make it feel like home. If only she can look past the disturbing nightly visions of tortured children.

The town whispers about the “outsider” living in the haunted house. After Katherine discovers she has painted a portrait of something eerie with no memory of doing so, she is starting to believe them.

She enlists the help of her new friend and deputy, Bradley. Together they hope to cast out the dark demons from the house’s past. Henry Alston and his wife, Grace, were found to be raping and killing children. The whole town played a part in the ending of his life but that has not stopped Alston from hurting people from the grave.

When I saw the description for this book, I jumped on the opportunity to read it. I live for haunted houses. Unfortunately, I have never lived in one. I would like to think that I would totally have it together and be fine with a ghost doing its thing. However, I am pretty sure I’d be running out of the house immediately.

Maybe I watch too many home makeover shows but I love it when a character does a deep clean of a house. Yes, scrub those floors! Ignore the ghosts, the walls need painted! This book definitely delivers on this weird obsession of mine. Katherine has to take this house in desperate need of some love and turn it into her forever home.

If you like new beginnings with a haunted twist, I highly recommend The Corruption of Alston House by John Quick. Some other great haunted house books I recommend are Hell House by Richard Matheson, Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco and The Good House by Tananarive Due.

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