Trista has always loved abandoned houses and the paranormal. Now that she’s at college only fifteen minutes from the notoriously haunted Hollow Street house, she knows exactly where she’s spending Halloween. She packs a bag, puts on her favorite vintage dress, and sets off, hoping to spot the ghost of the young, dark-haired woman who’s said to haunt the house’s living room.<br><br>Fellow student Keira does not like abandoned houses, and she isn’t particularly interested in ghosts. Visiting the Hollow Street house was not how she’d planned to spend Halloween. But her little sister, who loves all things spooky, has begged Keira to check out the haunted house next to her university, and Keira has trouble saying no. She doesn’t expect to see anything supernatural, so it’s quite a shock to find herself face-to-face with a mysterious young woman in old-fashioned clothing who seems to have appeared from nowhere.<br><br>When the two ghost-hunters come face to face, each mistakes the other for the ghost she’s looking for. How tragic, they both think, that such a beautiful person should have died so young. Of course, things aren’t as bleak as they seem, and the two women might find themselves pleasantly surprised ... if they can make it to the morning. Because real entities haunt the Hollow Street house, and they’re anything but friendly.

Spirits in the Dark

She wondered why the family who’d last lived here had left the house, why no one else had moved in. It was a good-sized place in a neighborhood that had once been well-to-do. Now many of the houses were empty, and even the occupied ones were run down. Had something happened in the city to drive the residents away? She’d have to do some research.


Of course, there was the obvious answer. Looking at the tideline of black mold that clung to the hallway wall just below the ceiling, Trista thought of other creeping things—dark things that crawled into the subconscious and left nightmares behind. If this house really was host to some kind of demonic entity, maybe its owners had been scared out.


Chapter 3