Play Nice

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty. Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer,but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Wellnot haunted. Possessed. After ClioΓÇÖs parents’ messy divorceher motherAlexmoved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. ThatΓÇÖs not what ClioΓÇÖs sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house. After AlexΓÇÖs sudden deaththe supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood traumaClio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Onlyas the home makeover process beginsClio discovers there might be some truth to her motherΓÇÖs claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her motherΓÇÖs booka sinister presence in the house manifestsrevealing ugly truths that threaten to shake ClioΓÇÖs beautiful life to its very foundation.