The House Beneath Blackmere

About the book

A child remembers a house she has never visited. A psychologist follows the memory down. When nine-year-old Mara Ellaby begins drawing the same impossible house again and again, child psychologist Dr. Elianor Vale suspects trauma, suggestion, or a story overheard at home. Then Mara gives the house a name. Blackmere. Hidden in damaged photographs, restricted files, and old therapeutic records, Blackmere House should be nothing more than a forgotten estate with a troubled past. But Mara knows its rooms. She knows the nursery. She knows the door beneath the floor. And she knows Mother Anne—a woman no one in Mara's life can explain. As Elianor investigates, the case becomes harder to contain. The evidence points to altered photographs, erased mothers, rewritten childhoods, and a sealed room beneath Blackmere House where memory was not simply preserved. It was instructed. But Mara is not the only one remembering. And Blackmere was never only a house. The House Beneath Blackmere is Book 1 of 3 in The Blackmere Files, a dark gothic psychological thriller series about memory, identity, family secrets, erased mothers, traumatic childhoods, institutional conspiracies, psychological suspense, and the lives institutions bury in the name of care.