Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

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The Haunting of Moscow House

In this elegant gothic horror taleset in post-revolutionary Russia,two formerly aristocratic sisters race touncover their family’s long-buried secretsin a house haunted by a past dangerous—and deadly—to remember.

It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’sancestral homein Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining membersof their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while theofficialstake over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house beginsto whisperof a traumatic past not asdead as they thought.

Eager to escape it and their unwelcome new landlords, Irina and Lili find jobs with the recently arrived American Relief Administration, meant to ease the post-revolutionary famine in Russia.For the sisters, the ARA provides much-needed food and employment, as well as a chance for sensibleIrina to help those less fortunate and artistic Lili to express herself for a good cause. It might just lead them to love,too.

But at home, the spirits of their deceased family awaken, desperate to impart what really happened to them during the Revolution.Soon one of the officialsliving in the house is found dead. Was his death caused by something supernatural, or by someone all too human? And are Irina and Lili and their family next? Only unearthing thefrightening secrets of Moscow House will reveal all. But this means the sisters must dig deep intoa past no one in Russia except the dead are allowed to remember.