Sarah decides to move back to the family home at Peacock Manor and restore it. So Sarah packs up her daughter Jade and Gracie and moves into the debilitated home uprooting all their lives and creating great teenage anguish for her oldest child Jade. On their first night there Gracie the youngest sees a ghost and becomes fascinated in discovering the family history and helping this ghost to move on. By moving home many things from the past are brought to the front. Sarah's first and true love Clint is there and that involves many issues that must be dealt with. Jade is convinced she is living in hell and her mother is the cause and the extended family is drama of its own. Then to top it off teenage girls start to go missing and Sarah's half- brother is a main suspect in the case.

CLOSE TO HOME is a fast moving mystery with a great background story. Lisa Jackson is a masterful writer and you think you know who did it but you are wrong and that's what you get for being a know it all. There is so much involved in the lives of these people that you can't stop reading. You are drawn into their lives and try so hard to figure out what the next move should be to help them get all the problems taken care of so they can just live their lives.

The characters are far from perfect people, they have all done things wrong and made mistakes but you truly like who they are and are fascinated by their stories. CLOSE TO HOME is full of suspense and truly chilling at times. The things people do and their sick ways fascinates in a macabre manner and Lisa Jackson has a way of writing it that keeps you wanting more.