Kids aren’t okay. What does brother and sister know about the mysterious death of their mother?
A Cornish detective thriller where mysticism conceals reality, and the past keeps haunting the living. Are you ready to find out what inexplicable forces truly control our lives?
At a secluded Pennwite, at the foot of a waterfall, the body of a young woman is found—Natalie Thiac. The police never reached a unified conclusion: was it an accident, a desperate attempt to settle accounts with life, or a cold-blooded murder? Over time, the chance to solve the crime became ever more elusive. A year later, Natalie’s children—her son Solomon and daughter Grace—living in an old manor with their father Malcolm, start behaving strangely. They share frightening revelations, talk about inexplicable visions, and seem to know more about their mother’s death than they should.
To help them and get to the bottom of what’s happening, a forensic psychologist, Karenza Brey, arrives at the manor. The landscapes of Cornwall—rocky shores surrounded by a harsh sea—are mesmerizing, and the ancient house whose threshold she crosses breathes history: its walls keep secrets rooted deep in centuries. As Karenza delves into the family’s past, she realizes this case isn’t like any she has encountered in her entire career. Gradually, a troubling picture unfolds before her. Epigenetics suggests that injuries don’t disappear without trace—they leave invisible marks on genes, like a whisper of ancestors embedded in the structure of DNA. What once tormented generations of the Tyaks now мучить Natalie’s children—not as a memory, but as a coded signal in their genes. But what exactly?
To uncover this case, Karenza will have to follow the trail of ghosts from days gone by, interrogate the shadows of forgotten events, and find the very trigger—the past trauma that set off this chain of terrifying incidents. But with every step toward the truth, the line between sanity and madness becomes thinner. Will she be able to reveal the secret without losing her mind? Immerse yourself in a world of dark family secrets and psychological mysteries, brought to life by Alexandra Uruzlyak, Grigory Perel, and Alexander Gavrilin.