The House That Kept Sunday

At 4:17 every Sunday, Venn House remembers a different version of the night Lena disappeared.

Twenty-one years ago, a storm swallowed the truth about a missing girl. Her family was told she had gone towards the river. The story was repeated until an uncertain account became accepted history. But no one can remember actually seeing Lena leave.

When Mara returns to Venn House with her brother Iven, the house begins to reveal impossible fragments of the past. A fourth place setting reappears after being packed away. A family photograph seems to change before their eyes. Three knocks sound beneath the pantry floor.

Every Sunday, the same twenty-six minutes bring another version of the family's memories. Some details contradict the others. Old household ledgers have been altered, an official report rests on a single account, and forgotten building plans point towards a sealed cistern beneath the house.

As Mara and Iven separate what they truly remember from what they were told, their search draws them towards a hidden space-and a family secret that has remained buried for more than two decades.

But memories are not evidence, and the dead do not always tell a story that can be understood.

The House That Kept Sunday is an atmospheric gothic ghost mystery about grief, unreliable memory, buried family secrets, and the cost of silence.

The first novel in The Veylan Hauntings, a series of standalone supernatural horror stories where every house, object, and forgotten place may hold a haunting of its own.