After watching her father die during the typhoid epidemic, 10-year old Essie is plagued by fears.  There are so many, in fact, that she keeps a list — a list of unspeakable fears. Her mother is now remarried to a doctor she believes to be sinister and cold.  He has moved them to an island off New Year City where they live in a creepy, possibly haunted, house with the beacon from the lighthouse scanning her room in the middle of the night. Her step-father is the head of the quarantine hospital for the incurable sick, including the infamous Typhoid Mary. Essie bravely battles her fears while trying to figure out why her step-father walks the ocean’s shores at midnight. Are she and her mother safe?

Fans of “A Monster Calls” will enjoy this psychological thriller by the author of “The Story that Cannot Be Told.”