Starter House

Starter House is the first novel by Sonja Condit. Lacey falls for a house with a striking wooden staircase and believes she has found the perfect home for her growing family. She grew up moving from place to place with her unreliable mother, Ella Dane, a self-described psychic, and Lacey is determined that her unborn child will have the stability she never did. She and her husband, Eric, have barely settled in when the house, once warm and inviting, turns cold and dark.

Something malevolent inside the walls seems intent on harming her baby, and Lacey is the only one who can feel it. A demanding, short-tempered little boy named Drew also begins appearing whenever she is alone. To keep her child safe and hold her family together, Lacey must uncover the history of the house and of Drew. The answers lie in a decades-old mystery tied to secrets, violence and guilt, and the evil that has waited there for years.