First Line Friday & The Friday 56: Home Before Dark Riley Sager

Posted October 11, 2024 by Stephanie in First Line Friday, the friday 56 / 7 Comments

First Line Friday is hosted by Carrie @ Reading Is My Superpower.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Anne @ My Head is Full of Books while Freda @ Freda’s Voice is on hiatus.

 

 

FIRST LINE FRIDAY

where each week we share the first line of our current read(s)

Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share.

 

THE FRIDAY 56

where each week we share a snippet from page 56 or 56%

I had no idea what Baneberry Hall really had in store for us. How, despite our best efforts, its history would eventually threaten to smother us. How twenty days inside its walls would become a waking nightmare.
Had we known any of that, we would have turned around, left Baneberry Hall, and never come back.

 

 

What was it like? Living in that house.

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon.

Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father’s death. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father’s book. But she doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist.

But when she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale, her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the pages of her father’s book lurk in the shadows, and locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself – a place that hints of dark deeds and unexplained happenings.

As the days pass, Maggie begins to believe that what her father wrote was more fact than fiction. That, either way, someone – or something – doesn’t want her here. And that she might be in danger all over again .

 

 

 

What do you think of the snippets I featured today?
Have you read this book? Do you want to?

 

 

7 responses to “First Line Friday & The Friday 56: Home Before Dark Riley Sager

  1. Suzie B

    I have really enjoyed all of the books by Riley Sager! This one is on my TBR list and I can’t wait – perfect for the spooky season ahead!

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