Some towns welcome you. Some towns keep you.

Ethan Carter and Olivia Bennett have been together for four years when they find the house: white, with a blue door and two chairs on a deep front porch, in a small New England town that nobody has ever heard of.

Averden is everything they hoped for. The neighbors are warm. The light is perfect. Every evening the porch lights come on, one by one, all the way down Linden Street. And every Saturday, the whole street gathers at a long table to tell each other how they met.

In Averden, Ethan and Olivia fall in love more deeply than they ever thought possible.

But the neighbors never seem to grow any older. The stories at the long table never change. The photographs Olivia takes of the street keep coming out strangely empty. And nobody on Linden Street will say what happened in the old meeting house on the green, a very long time ago.

Averden has been waiting for them.
And it is so very glad they came.

A slow-burn supernatural horror novel about love, loss, and the terrible price of refusing to let go. For readers who like their horror quiet, haunting, and heartbreaking: a love story in a town where something has been watching for three hundred years.