Stephanie Booth’s life is going downhill because of constant money problems and debts. So when she manages to rent an apartment at an astonishingly low price, it seems like the streak of bad luck has finally ended. But her new home holds many secrets. At night Stephanie hears strange sounds: something scratching under the floor, a woman crying in the neighboring empty apartment, and snapping noises coming from beneath the bed as torn plastic crackles. Stephanie feels like someone is in her room—even though she locks the door for the night and doesn’t take the key out of the lock until morning. Soon the voices become more hostile, strange events pile up like snowballs, growing increasingly bizarre and irrational, and the house itself turns out to be a real trap. Stephanie has to escape before the locals get to her first. But this is not a usual ghost story—the truth is far more terrifying, more real, and more ancient.