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The Attic Room

A phone call from a stranger named John Moore turns Nina's quiet life upside down. He knows her name, and she has no idea how. Shortly afterwards she travels south to look at a house that has come to her by inheritance, only to find herself caught up in a police investigation and receiving menacing letters. Her own identity starts to be questioned, and she begins to suspect that the events tied to the house reach back many years, to a crime connected with the attic room.

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Her ten-year-old daughter joins her, which adds to the danger. Nina must dig into the history of the Moore family, a search that places both of them at risk from someone who is watching closely. Who is hiding the truth, and how far will they go to keep it buried? This is a fast, unsettling suspense story about secrets that run through a family and the lengths people will go to protect them.

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