Everyone in Palestine remembers the haunted house.
There’s just one problem: it never existed.

Texas, 1894.

No deed records it. No survey marks it. No map leaves room for it. Yet the people of Palestine remember the old house in the woods—and Judge Z. A. McReynolds is certain that something is very wrong.

Walter Gresham expects a mystery. Eleanor suspects folklore.

Sekmet knows better.

Their investigation draws them into the Weird—a phenomenon where stories become frighteningly real. A Gothic nightmare awaits them in Victorian England. An impossible voyage carries them among floating islands and air pirates. And again and again they encounter the same disturbing clues: ancient symbols, mysterious Seals, and evidence that someone has been holding something back for a very long time.

Then they enter the haunted house.

Inside, distance means nothing. Doors open onto places that cannot exist. Something hunts them through the darkness.

And behind one impossible door, Walter, Eleanor, and Sekmet discover that the mystery of Palestine’s ghosts is far older—and far stranger—than they ever imagined.

Some places should stay forgotten.