The Unquiet House

The house has been listed three times in ten years. Nobody has made it past the fens road. Isobel Ward is a debunker. She has cleared a Welsh chapel, a Scottish lighthouse and a Leeds council flat. She does not believe in the dead. She believes in drafting errors. She is given three men to work with. Kieran, who has surveyed this structure three times and been turned back at the gate every one. Alastair, whose great-great-grandfather's name is carved over the fireplace. Bran, who is a medium, and whose unhappiness about it is the one thing Isobel cannot debunk. Nine nights in the house. One pattern — an arrangement of four. By the eighth night Isobel understands the house is not haunted. It is holding a contract. And the fourth signature has been left blank for a hundred and forty years, waiting for her pen.