As the chilling mysteries of Cliffside Manor unravel and the eerie sins of the past are exposed, Eleanor must fight to save the fellows-and herself-from sinister forces. After the arrival of the new fellows-including the intriguing, handsome photographer Richard Banks-she begins to suspect that her predecessor chose the group with a dangerous purpose in mind.
But from her first fog-filled moments on the manor's grounds, Eleanor is seized by a sense of impending doom and realizes there's more to the institution than its reputation of being a haven for creativity. When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists' retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor's dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a "waiting room for death." After years of covering murder and violence as a crime reporter, Eleanor hopes that being around artists and writers in this new job will be a peaceful retreat for her as much as for them.
But there’s little chance for romance, as Norrie and her guests become spooked by increasingly menacing occurrences that seem somehow linked to the deaths at Cliffside decades earlier of philanthropist Chester Dare and his daughters Chamomile and Temperance.
Soon sparks unexpectedly fly between Norrie and both Nathan Davidson, the curiously old-school physician living on the grounds, and one of the visiting fellows, dashing nature photographer Richard Banks. Then, within hours of her arrival, tragedy strikes-and she’s about to discover that she has every reason to be terrified. Former reporter Eleanor “Norrie” Harper, the narrator of this solid supernatural thriller from Webb ( The Vanishing), can’t fathom her feelings of dread before starting a dream job-becoming director of Cliffside Manor, the storied one-time TB sanatorium, once owned by the wealthy Dare family, now turned into a retreat for artists and writers on the shore of Lake Superior.
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