Publisher's Synopsis
Forty years ago, paranormal researcher Diana Moore encountered the one haunted house she could never explain. Now, finally, she's ready to go back and discover the truth.Offered the chance of a lifetime, Jessie Banks agrees to go with Diana and act as her assistant. They find Hardlocke House abandoned, but soon they begin to notice small signs that something is lurking in the shadows. Hardlocke House has a dark history, having been built many centuries earlier as an orphanage, but are its past residents really trying to make their presence felt?Soon, Jessie and Diana find that the house hides far more secrets than they ever could have expected. What dark force lingers in the small chapel to the side of the house? Do the ghosts of the house's dead children really haunt the forest? And what really happened to Sarah Clarke, governess of the house all those years ago, when she tried to stand up against a malevolent force that still yearns to wreak its revenge upon the world?The Haunting of Hardlocke House is a horror story about a girl who refuses to believe in ghosts, about a woman who has spent forty years denying the truth about what she really saw, and about a house that has never been able to let go of its horrific past.
