While in the room behind the walls of her home, Callie feels shadows moving around her, but summons the courage to not let her fear of the dark get to her. It is as if someone had been locked away in the small space, with a half bedroom, half dining area, and small bathroom that had seen better days due to extensive water damage.
The housekeeper, Rosita has told Callie multiple times that she doesn't have keys to that part of the home, that there is water damage to the area and just used for storage with no reason to ever enter that part of the home.īut Callie is persistent, explaining she didn't buy part of a house, that all the property is theirs, regardless of its condition and after finding some keys that were hidden and unblocking doorways, Callie finds a whole section of the house that has been closed off and immediately wishes she had followed the old woman's advice.Įxploring the rooms to find only clutter left behind by what seemed to be the family that had built the home and had passed it down through their line since 1912, Callie finds little in the secret rooms that ever point to it being lived in by staff.
The term itself relation to an intense fear of the dark, Callie has put her struggles behind her and as she grieved for her broken childhood through overcoming addiction and self mutilation, she has found happiness with Mateo, although she admits as he moves the family to Spain she doesn't really know her new husband as well as she thinks.įinding a cliff side home at a ridiculously low price, Callie and Mateo quickly move into the home only to find it comes with an observatory, a master clock whose gears keep daylight time for the entire house, and the staff that came with the property that are less than friendly to the couple.Įxplaining they belong to the land and not the owners, the housekeeper refuses to give Callie the keys to what was told to be old maid quarters that run behind the kitchen, laundry, and bathrooms of the house with no access to any of the other parts of the house. After years of unhappiness that brought her to the brink of suicide after having an abortion, Callie believes she can keep the past in the past and move on to a brighter future in Christopher Fowler's novel Nyctophobia.
Newly married, Callie is learning all about her businessman husband, whom is eighteen years older and has a child from a previous relationship.
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