Publisher's Synopsis
1962: The daughter of a colliery manager vanishes. Weeks later, the father is murdered in bizarre fashion. Two days after the funeral, his wife takes her own life. In her will, she states explicitly that the house is to be turned into an orphanage. 1966: A group of teenagers arrive at the old place. Unaware of its troubled past, they soon encounter disturbing psychic phenomena. After breaking into a locked room on the forbidden third floor, the manifestations get infinitely worse. Fearing for their lives, they decide to run away. 1986: Skylar Cole, one of three, who fled the orphanage some twenty years ago, is now a successful investigative journalist. Informed by a colleague that Dark Waters has been hit by a series of brutal murders, he decides to look into things. To his astonishment, he discovers each of the victims has been killed in the exact same manner as Charles Duke, the former owner of the house. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, he returns to the village. What he uncovers will forever alter his perception of the afterlife.
