The Stroke of Winter

She’s restoring the old family home on the hill. And unearthing something evil. In the tourist town of Wharton,on the coast of Lake SuperiorTess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter… As the house’s restoration commencesa shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess’s late grandfatherbeloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bellhid away for generations. But these appear to be the works of a twisted mindalmost unrecognizable as paintings she and others familiar with his art would expect. The sinister canvases raise disturbing questions for Tesssparking nightmares and igniting in her an obsession to unearth the truth around their origins. What evil has been locked away for so many years? The ominous brushstrokesscratching at the doorand moving shadows begin to pull Tess further and further into the darkness in this blood-chilling novel of suspense by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keepers of Metsan Valo.