Some houses were built to imprison, not to shelter.

When twenty-six-year-old Jillian Duport returns to her grandparents' Second Empire Victorian in rural Pennsylvania, she tells herself she's reclaiming her inheritance. But the house on the ridge—with its disconnected turret, locked third-floor rooms, and a reading loft suspended between stories—remembers everything she has tried to forget.

Jillian bears a scar from the Indianhead River Killer and a psychiatric diagnosis that leaves her raw and exposed. She has come home to clear her grandfather's name. But the house has other plans.

Jillian hires a private investigator to track down Dr. Hellerman, the psychiatrist who fled Belcorte in 1981 and may hold the key to her grandfather's innocence. When the investigator vanishes and cryptic calls arrive from someone claiming to be Dr. Hellerman, Jillian realizes she has stirred something far older than familial secrets. A figure with bronze teeth appears in the shadows, leaving messages about dead miners and a pestilence that refuses to stay buried. The walls are closing in, and the thing that lives between the floors is hungry.

Tenebrous is a literary descent into generational guilt where the greatest horror is the breathless love that once illuminated the house and the shadows that keep it standing.

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