The house was supposed to be empty.It wasn’t.When Ivy Hale purchases Blackwood Manor, she’s desperate for a fresh start—a place where no one knows her, where the past can finally stay buried.The estate is isolated. Forgotten. Perfect.Until she arrives.The gates are already open.The door is unlocked.And inside, waiting for her, is a message:YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE COME.At first, Ivy tells herself it’s nothing. A mistake. A cruel joke.Then she finds the journal.Every movement she makes…Every step she takes…Has already been written down.Someone has been watching her—long before she ever set foot on the property.As the walls of Blackwood Manor begin to close in, Ivy uncovers traces of another presence:A burned candle…A lingering perfume…A room that isn’t as empty as it should be.And then something moves.Not imagined.Not explained.Real.Trapped inside a house that knows her too well, Ivy is forced to confront a terrifying truth:She was never meant to find this place.She was chosen for it.And the woman who once ruled Blackwood Manor—Eleanor Vance—may not be as gone as everyone believes.Because the wife upstairs… isn’t dead.
