He didn't come here to find the house. The house had been waiting for him to remember it.
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Owen Calder inherits a house in Cornwall from a woman he has never met, on one condition: he must spend a single night there alone. He tells himself it's a formality - a stranger's odd bequest, easily honoured and just as easily forgotten. He is wrong on both counts.
Trevenna House does not hold ghosts. It holds what hasn't happened yet - and what happened once, in 1944, to two men and a frightened girl who tried to look too closely at their own futures and paid for it in ways the village has spent eighty years agreeing never to discuss. As Owen digs into the house's past, his estranged seventeen-year-old daughter Sophie is drawn into it too, carrying a gift - or a curse - of her own, one she's had since she was old enough to dream in colour.
What Owen slowly understands is that he isn't discovering this house. He's remembering it. Somewhere in his own forgotten childhood is the reason Beatrice Armitage spent thirty years watching a stranger's life from a distance and decided, in the end, that he was the one person who might finally get the choice right - not by outsmarting the house, but by choosing his daughter over the answer he came here looking for.
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