After thirty pages, I was hooked.

It's the winter of 1908 in the small town of West Hall, Vermont. Months after the tragic and accidental death of her young daughter, Sarah Shea Harrison is found dead in the small field behind her farm house.

Over a hundred years pass and the small Vermont town is riddled with local legend and ghost stories surrounding the death of Sarah and her daughter. Ruthie Washburne, her six year old sister Fawn, and their mother Alice now live an isolated life in Sarah's former farmhouse.

One morning, Alice has suddenly vanished and Ruthie begins witnessing the ghost stories of West Hall first hand as she and her sister search for their mother.

Told from various voices including Ruthie's and the pages of a secret diary Sarah Shea Harrison left behind, The Winter People is a gripping and heart-thudding novel that reveals how far people are willing to go to take back what they've lost.