Nellie Lester flees Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu to take a nursing job at a decrepit manor on a desolate Michigan island. When the frozen body of the prior nurse is unearthed and Nellie is haunted nightly by a ghostly presence, she doesn’t know if it’s the living, the dead, or her own mind she should fear.

Nellie Lester flees Chicago and the 1918 Spanish flu to take a nursing job at a decrepit manor on a desolate island, where she must grapple with a ghostly presence to find out if the murder of the prior nurse is connected to her family’s past.

“An early-autumn treat fit for late-night devouring.” —Publishers Weekly

“A taut gothic mystery with an intriguing twist.” —Susanna Calkins, award-winning author of the Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy Murders

A Ghostly Window Into the Past

Nurse Nellie Lester can’t escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island. She’s convinced the island holds the secret to her mother’s murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she’s haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister?

When the frozen body of the prior nurse is unearthed, Nellie suspects her family’s history and the nurse’s uncanny death are connected to a mysterious group that disappeared from the island twenty-four years earlier.