The Agony House

By Cherie Priest, Tara O'Connor (Illustrator)

A haunted house hides deadly secrets and a mysterious comic. Can Denise uncover the truth before it's too late?

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256 pages· 65,688 words· Est. 8 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Denise Farber returns to New Orleans, her family betting everything on a dilapidated house. Strange noises and collapsing floors hint at a sinister presence. In the attic, she discovers a lost comic by a vanished artist, holding clues to the haunting. As danger escalates, Denise must solve the mystery within the comic and the house to save her family. Will she unravel the secrets before it's too late?

From the publisher

A haunted house, a killer ghost, and a long-lost comic come to life in another spectacular package of novel and comics from Cherie Priest, author of I Am Princess X.Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family’s money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast. Nothing seems to work around the place, which doesn’t seem too weird to Denise. The unexplained noises are a little more out of the ordinary, but again, nothing too unusual. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and she hears creepy voices, it’s clear to Denise that something more sinister lurks hidden here.Answers may lie in an old comic book Denise finds concealed in the attic: the lost, final project of a famous artist who disappeared in the 1950s. Denise isn’t budging from her new home, so she must unravel the mystery-on the pages and off-if she and her family are to survive…

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