Random House USA Inc No Doors, No Windows: A Novel

Discovering an unfinished manuscript after the death of his writer father, Scott Mast finds the story to be a riveting ghost tale about a house with a hidden wing and subsequently learns that the house is a real structure with a mysterious history, a dwelling that Scott rents so that he can complete his father's novel. Original. Scott discovers an unfinished novel in a tool shed after his father's death and, after learning that the story is based on a real haunted house in town, decides to rent the place in order to complete it. Scott Mast thought he got away - first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scott's mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstances - the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful day - are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript - an unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hidden - and perhaps finish his father's unspeakable work. When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got away–first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.Fifteen years ago, Scott’s mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstances–the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful day–are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript–an unfinished ghost story written in his father’s own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. Here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hidden–and perhaps finish his father’s unspeakable work. Autorid: Joe Schreiber