A dark, gothic, claustrophobic psychological thriller, based on children’s fantasies and fears.
The scariest stories are the ones we tell ourselves…
Westerick Road 36 is an old stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh—mysterious and gloomy, with narrow winding corridors and dark niches. But its main secret is one that has safely hidden itself among its walls. The Mirror Kingdom: a vivid imagined world dreamed up as children by twin sisters Kat and Elle. Their only hiding place… But from what?
Now Kat is over thirty. She hasn’t spoken to her sister in years and rarely remembers the past. But when she learns that one sunny morning Elle left the harbor of Edinburgh by her sailboat and disappeared, Kat is forced to return to Westerick Road… Whatever happens, she is sure: her sister didn’t die. She would have felt it. She would have known…
In twenty years, the house hasn’t changed at all. On every step, Kat is met by ominous ghosts of the past. Someone keeps sending her mysterious emails with clues—following them, she always finds another hidden page from Elle’s diary. And those pages, one after another, pull her back into the Mirror Kingdom—where the truth hides, and where she will have to confront the terrifying reality of her childhood. A childhood that wasn’t as idyllic as she remembers…