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"Nightmarish - you won't be able to look away." - Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door. A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise - old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.. Shrouded in the shadows, she sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall.