The Room Behind The Wall: The Secret They Kept For Thirty Years

by Jessica Harper

Iris Vance has spent her life cleaning up the Vance family's messes, but when she matches a 1990 contractor's invoice against a basement wall that shouldn't exist, she finds a mess that refuses to be swept away. [HOOK] As the invisible 'poor relation' charged with clearing out her aunt's hoarding-filled estate, Iris is desperate for the commission to fund her daughter's medical school tuition. But the house is hiding more than dust and porcelain dolls. A sealed section of the basement, a passport that never traveled, and a cousin who supposedly vanished to India thirty years ago. [SETUP] If she exposes the architecture of their cruelty, she loses the money she desperately needs and risks the wrath of her uncle, who holds the family purse strings. But if she stays silent, she becomes the jailer of the man scratching inside the walls. [STAKES] Now Iris must decide: take the money and run, or break down the wall and let the family secrets destroy them all. [CLIFFHANGER]