Your past and your family can haunt you like nothing else... A hilarious and terrifying new
novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group. Every
childhood home is haunted and each of us are possessed by our parents. When their parents are
both killed in a car accident Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare
them for how bad things are about to get. The two siblings are almost totally estranged and
couldn't be more different. Now however both with equally empty bank accounts they don't
have a choice but to get along. Their one asset? Their childhood home. They need to get it on
the market as soon as possible because they need the money. Yet the house has morphed into a
hoarder's paradise and before they died their parents nailed shut the attic door... Sometimes
we feel like puppets controlled by our upbringing and our genes. Sometimes we feel like our
parents treat us like toys or playthings or even dolls. The past can ground us teach us and
keep us safe. It can also trap us and bind us and suffocate the life out of us. As disturbing
events stack up in the house Louise and Mark have to learn that sometimes the only way to
break away from the past sometimes the only way to sell a haunted house is to burn it all
down.
