The Wrenfield Hauntings · Book 1
The Showing by Emlyn Harrow. A dark Second Empire house on an ink-teal field; every window dark except one, lit amber, with a single thin cable running down into the fog.

The Showing

by Emlyn Harrow

She fakes hauntings for a living. The house she's rigging just started running better tricks than hers.

Merritt Voss is why a certain kind of old house sells fifteen points under asking: sixty dollars of transducer behind 1871 plaster, a murmur with no words in it. Nobody wants a ghost. They want a discount with a backstory. Every effect she builds is numbered, cued, logged — hers.

The house on Prospect Street is the last job. The bonus clears the debt that keeps her sentence suspended. Then, at eleven minutes to two, the house fires an effect that isn't on her build sheet. She audits every line she owns: green. Her rig is electric down to the last relay. Whatever answered runs on breath.

She can't report it without confessing, can't quit without defaulting — and the showings start Saturday.

Is the house haunted — or is someone in it lying? She would know. Lying is her job.

A twist you won't see coming — and every clue is on the page.
Book 1 of The Wrenfield Hauntings. Each story complete. No cliffhangers.

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The series

Three books. One town. Each story complete. No cliffhangers. Every story complete. But the town isn't done.

Book 2 and Book 3 of The Wrenfield Hauntings will appear here as they become real — nothing is announced before it exists. First word always goes to The Porch Light.

The shelf it lives on

Gothic Thrillers · Psychological Thrillers · Haunted House Books

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