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Newcomer Lucie Whitehouse has written a tense and captivating story that will linger long after the final, shocking pages.
Ballantine Books
June 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 034549931X
EAN: 9780345499318
Hardcover
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On an icy winter weekend, seven friends celebrate New Year’s
Eve at Stoneborough, a grand manor in the English
countryside. They’ve been brought together by Lucas
Heathfield, a young man who recently inherited the property
after the tragic death of his uncle Patrick. Though still
raw from the loss of his last family member, Lucas welcomes
this tight-knit group of friends to the estate he hopes will
become their home away from home–an escape from London where
they can all relax and rekindle the revelry of their college
days.
Lucas’s best friend, Joanna, finds herself
oddly affected by the cavernous manse, with its lavish
mythological ceiling mural and sprawling grounds, and
awakened to a growing bond with Lucas. Much to her surprise,
he reveals that he’s loved her for years. But as they begin
to find their way from friendship to romance, Joanna can’t
shake the feeling that the house is having its own effect on
them.
Back in London, Joanna is stunned when Lucas
announces that he and their impetuous friend Danny are
moving into Stoneborough full-time. Her concern seems
justified as Lucas, once ensconced, becomes completely
ensnared in the turbulent past that seems to haunt the
house–a past that is captured in old movie reels featuring
Lucas’s now-dead family: his charismatic uncle Patrick, his
lovely mother, Claire, and his golden-boy father, Justin.
Over one decadent, dramatic year, as the friends
frequently gather at the shadowed residence, secrets slide
out and sexual tensions escalate, shattering friendships and
forever changing lives. And all the while, the house cradles
a devastating secret.
By turns taut and sensual,
mesmerizing and disturbing, The House at Midnight is a
gripping psychological novel that pulls the reader into the
thrall of its ominous atmosphere.
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