Scott and Elise have moved into her terminally ill father's house in the Hamptons. Elise spends her days at the hospital with her dying father, and Scott, a freelance photographer, has little to keep him occupied, especially since it's the dead of winter. He then notices a bedroom light in the supposedly vacant house next door turning off each night at the same time. Scott becomes obsessed with the occurrence and decides to explore the old house.

The exhilaration he experiences has him inviting Elise to join in his nightly forays. This seemingly modest indiscretion quickly turns into something neither of them can control. Evil started years ago unleashes a terrible chain of sinister events, totally consuming Scott's world.

THE WINTER GIRL by Matt Marinovich ratchets up the tension with each new plot revelation. The narrative is compact and concise in this psychological thriller loaded with surprising twists and turns. Just when I thought I'd deduced the outcome, Marinovich cannily threw in another shocking element that turned everything upside down. THE WINTER GIRL is sure to give readers plenty of chills.