Renovation

Nine months after her husband's bizarre and unexplained death in their living room, twenty-eight-year-old Ellie Marsh decides to honor him the only way she can — by finishing the renovations they never got to start. First on the list: the hideous forty-year-old wallpaper he always joked he'd kill. But when the paper comes down, Ellie finds something waiting on the plaster beneath — something old, something patient, something that has been keeping careful track of the house on Beecher Street far longer than she's lived there. And the more she studies it, the more she realizes the marks aren't a record of the past at all. Some houses remember. This one anticipates — and it isn't finished counting.