Brannon House

Suicide or the perfect cover-up? Kenzi Brannon loves the single life in California. She hasn't looked back since the day she walked away from her painful past. Everything comes crashing down when Kenzi gets a call about her estranged sister's suicide. If that news isn't shocking enough, she also learns that she is now guardian to Ember, a niece she doesn't even know. Kenzi heads up north and finds herself in her family's long-abandoned house. Neighbors whisper rumors of hauntings, but Kenzi has a more serious concern-mounting evidence points to her sister's death not being self-inflicted. When things in the house move seemingly on their own, Ember thinks it's ghosts. But Kenzi fears something far more sinister. Could the person who killed her sister now be after her and her niece?

Some questions are better left unasked. Like whose blood is on the knife upstairs. Kenzi Brannon's life was turned upside down when she moved into her family's abandoned home to raise her niece. Problems compound when her aging mother starts to remember things. And clues the police find regarding the knife don't match anything Kenzi knows about her family. Things go from bad to worse when she and her niece discover something horrifying in their house. But not even that compares to the strange ways her mom is acting. Can they get to the bottom of it all, or will their house-a local legend that goes bump in the night-and the family secrets destroy them all?

How many secrets can one house hide? Kenzi Brannon has always dreaded going down to the dark basement of the old Brannon house she grew up in. Now an adult, she's returned home to find her apprehension has intensified. She avoids that locked door and the secrets beyond in hope that ignoring the problem will keep long-forgotten horrors buried. A neighbor's obsession with her house and history has rekindled Kenzi's old fears. And reconnecting with someone from her past may force her to face what she's been running from her entire life. And that might not be the worst of it. The garden her family is restoring could conceal something far more terrifying than anything inside the house. Something that could rip her newly found family apart. Some people say the truth will set you free. Kenzi can't help but feel that it will destroy everything.

Most family ties are silken threads. Others are literally handcuffs. Kenzi Brannon thinks most of her problems are behind her until she gets a call from the local jail. Her mother, a proven killer, is being released due to overcrowding. Blood takes care of blood, so there is no turning Regina away. She returns to live at Brannon House. A haunted house. A house reputedly so cursed, some neighbors want it razed to the ground. But her niece's friends and the rest of the town would love to explore. And Halloween seems like the perfect time to open their doors to the community. Despite Regina promising to be on her best behavior, Kenzi has concerns her mother might do something to ruin the evening. It turns out far worse than she feared. With innocent lives on the line, Kenzi must put a stop to her mother's maniacal actions-but first, she'll have to find her.

Ember Brannon is inexplicably drawn to an old gravestone bearing her own name, its forgotten presence casting an unsettling pall over her family's ancestral home. As she becomes fixated on the stone and the long-forgotten life it represents, Ember's reality begins to unravel. Vivid dreams transport her to a time shrouded in mystery, the tragic demise of her namesake becomes an obsession she won't release. Obsessions have their price. Ember awakens with muddy feet, evidence of nocturnal wanderings she can't remember. The discovery of a hidden diary, chronicling the life of the other Ember, triggers a spiral into fascination and compulsion. Her loved ones try to stop her, but she pushes everyone away. Within the halls of the Brannon House, Ember hurtles toward an impending breaking point. Is she fated to echo the tragedies that haunt her lineage, becoming another ghost? Or will she find the strength to confront the enigma she's become, and the danger that stalks her every move? In this thriller, the legacy of the Brannon House tightens its grip, pushing Ember to the brink of sanity. As her world teeters on the edge of collapse, she must navigate the thin line between legacy and lunacy.

Regina Brannon's unexpected return from prison-wheelchair-bound and seemingly helpless-flips her family's world upside down. Struggling to protect her pregnant self and adopted niece, Kenzi suspects her mother's paralysis is a ruse. As eerie events unfold in their old mansion, the arrival of Ryker, a man claiming to be a long-lost Brannon, further complicates matters. Caught between her husband's suspicions and her brother's sympathy, Kenzi finds herself entangled in a web of family secrets and divided loyalties. As the line between truth and deception blurs, Kenzi must unravel the mystery before it's too late. Is Regina truly helpless, or is she orchestrating a sinister plan that could shatter their fragile family forever?

History doesn't just repeat itself at the Brannon House. It sleepwalks. When Kenzi wakes up in a rarely used wing of her family's historic mansion, she knows something is wrong. Her sleepwalking has returned, but this time, it's more dangerous-and she's waking up farther from her own bed. As her nightly wanderings grow more frequent, her family scrambles to protect her. Then they uncover an unsettling photograph of Millie Brannon, an ancestor who looks eerily like Kenzi, with a haunting accusation scrawled on the back. Nearly a century ago, Millie too roamed these halls in her sleep, only to wake up covered in blood. Now, with her pregnancy progressing and her connection to Millie's mysterious past deepening, Kenzi must unravel the truth about what happened in 1928. But some secrets should have stayed buried, and someone-or something-will stop at nothing to ensure she follows in Millie's sleepy footsteps. Will Kenzi wake up before it's too late . . . or become the next Brannon to pay the ultimate price?

The shadows at Brannon House don't just watch . . . They remember. When Billa feels eyes following her every move in her cottage on the edge of the estate, she dismisses it as paranoia-the lingering trauma of her kidnapping. But as the sensation intensifies, she reluctantly considers the one place she swore she'd never move into: the mansion. Meanwhile, new mother Kenzi is harboring secrets that even she may not fully understand-memories hidden away by time, trauma . . . or something far darker. As she searches for her missing psychiatric files from Radley Institution, disturbing questions emerge. Was her time there longer than anyone has admitted? And what really happened in the abandoned theater on the grounds? When Billa's kidnapper resurfaces with more demands, the family's fragile peace shatters. Carol, the devoted auntie, grows increasingly protective of the newborn as strange occurrences plague the estate. As the walls of Brannon House close in, one thing becomes clear-the past isn't just haunting them, it's hunting them. Will they uncover the truth before history claims another victim . . . or are the Brannons bound to bleed for their legacy?