The September House

 The September House by Carissa Orlando                              Horror/Thriller/Paranormal/Mystery

(from Goodreads)  A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.  When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.  Margaret is not most people.  Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.

(My Review)  Hal and Margaret move into their dream house for their retirement, but things are not as they seem.  They soon learn the house is haunted, especially in the month of September.  Their daughter, Katherine, comes to visit (in September) to find her father missing.  As she tries to figure out where is he is, she tries to unravel the mystery of the house.  Is the house haunted, or is her mother suffering from a mental illness?  I found this book interesting.  It was part spooky, part Haunted Mansion, part family drama.  I would definitely recommend it.