Five Mile House
By: Karen Novak.
Edition: 1st US ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Haunted houses -- Fiction.; Covens -- Fiction.; New England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Eleanor Bly haunts Five Mile House, waiting to tell someone the terrible truth about her life and death. In 1899, Eleanor mysteriously murdered her children and jumped from the tower window. One hundred years later, she finds Leslie who bears an uncanny resemblance to Eleanor and is sympathetic if only because of the ghosts she carries herself.".

"In a moment of temporary insanity, Leslie shoots and kills the suspected perpetrator of a hideous child murder. When evidence is inconclusive, Leslie enters a severe depression and is institutionalized. After her release, her husband, in an effort to change their environment, moves his family to the small New England town of Wellington where he has been lured by the town's most powerful family to restore the mysterious Five Mile House.

It doesn't take long for them to hear about the nineteenth-century madwoman who killed her children in the house. Leslie soon becomes obsessed with Eleanor's story and entangles herself in the dark secrets of Five Mile House and the town itself, locally known for its coven of Wiccan followers." "As the paths of both women dangerously converge, history may indeed repeat itself."--BOOK JACKET.