Susan’s life looks perfect. She looks perfect. She has a beautiful home, a father who is a successful lawyer and a mother who is in all of the local women’s clubs. Her hair is always perfect. She always wears lovely dresses and her bedroom is absolutely perfect and pink. She even attends the perfect private school. But Susan’s life isn’t perfect. Her life isn’t even her own. Her father controls everything she does. He chooses her clothes, her bedroom furniture, her school. He doesn’t let her hang out after school either. He even calls home just to make sure Susan’s at home being a good girl, the perfect daughter. So it’s a special treat when her father gives Susan permission to go to the public library after school one day to work on a research project. Susan savors the freedom, wondering what it would be like to have it everyday. It’s at the library that she gets her chance at everyday freedom when she hears three other teens talking about their plans to use a local haunted house to get some privacy. Edmund wants privacy to practice his magic, Julio to practice his violin and Deidre to hide her childish but cherished collection of baby dolls Susan demands to join in and uses the research project as an excuse to be able to get away everyday after school. There’s only one small problem: the house is really haunted. Nathan haunts the house, but more than that, the house is aware of itself and everyone else. The house can slam doors, create furniture, lock people in or out. But the teens persist and soon they each find a niche in the house and even befriend the ghost, Nathan. So, the scarry part of this book isn’t House or Nathan. It’s Susan’s secret. Not just that she has a controlling father, but it’s what lengths he’ll go to to control her and what lengths Susan will go to to stop him. And it will take everyone, including Nathan and House to stop the unthinkable from happening.