We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough ($28.99, 9781250394057, May 20, 2025).
After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous and striking--but to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.
Old boards creak at night, fires go out, books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily's alone, so are they happening at all? She's still medically fragile; her postsepsis condition can cause hallucinatory side effects, which means she can't fully trust her own senses. Freddie doesn't notice anything odd and is happy with their chance at a fresh start.
Emily, however, starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it, though she can find no evidence of a wrongful death. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge.
"There're lots of amazing twists," says Christine Kopprasch. "We published Sarah's Behind Her Eyes in 2017 and the hashtag for that was #wtfthatending. This has that similar sense of rising dread and eeriness and then the shocking twists that Sarah has come to be known for."
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Sarah Pinborough is an English author of more than 20 novels and novellas. Behind Her Eyes was adapted into a hit Netflix series in 2021. She comments, "I'm so excited to be part of Pine & Cedar's first roster of novels, and with the editing superstar Christine Kopprasch and her vision at the helm, I feel like, as a storyteller, I've spiritually come home. Pine & Cedar are going to be a force to be reckoned with!"