Don't Look Back
Will be published approx. on 22. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-0367-1007-1 (ISBN)
Description
What really haunts Fenton House?
After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for free in a breathtakingly beautiful mansion on the Cornish Lizard Peninsula. There's just one catch: the house is supposedly haunted.
Mystery has always swirled around Fenton House. In 1920 the house's original owner, reclusive industrialist Walter Lewarne, hanged himself from its highest turret. In 1996, the then inhabitants, George Trehearne, his wife Sofia, and their young daughter Heloise vanished without a trace. Neither mystery was ever solved.
Adam is not the type to believe in ghosts. As far as he's concerned, ghosts are simply memories. Everywhere he looks in their cramped London home he sees his dead son. Despite misgivings, the chance to start afresh is too tempting to pass up. Adam, Ella, and their surviving son Henry move into Fenton House. At first, the change of scenery gives them all a new lease of life. But as the house starts to reveal its secrets, they come to suspect that they may not be alone after all...
Don't Look Back is the first standalone novel in The Devil's Ledger series, a chilling collection of supernatural thrillers filled with haunted houses, cursed families, tragic pasts, and the unquiet dead. Perfect for fans of gothic horror, psychological suspense, and ghost stories that linger long after the last page.
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Praise for The Devil's Ledger series:
? ? ? ? ? If you are a Stephen King or Robert McCammon fan, you need to read this author.
? ? ? ? ? This was exciting, gripping, and wonderfully written.
? ? ? ? ? This is a very well written, scary, suspenseful story which totally grabbed me.
? ? ? ? ? This book was a perfect haunted house book.
? ? ? ? ? Great mystery with a lot of creepiness. It felt a bit like an old gothic mystery.
After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for free in a breathtakingly beautiful mansion on the Cornish Lizard Peninsula. There's just one catch: the house is supposedly haunted.
Mystery has always swirled around Fenton House. In 1920 the house's original owner, reclusive industrialist Walter Lewarne, hanged himself from its highest turret. In 1996, the then inhabitants, George Trehearne, his wife Sofia, and their young daughter Heloise vanished without a trace. Neither mystery was ever solved.
Adam is not the type to believe in ghosts. As far as he's concerned, ghosts are simply memories. Everywhere he looks in their cramped London home he sees his dead son. Despite misgivings, the chance to start afresh is too tempting to pass up. Adam, Ella, and their surviving son Henry move into Fenton House. At first, the change of scenery gives them all a new lease of life. But as the house starts to reveal its secrets, they come to suspect that they may not be alone after all...
Don't Look Back is the first standalone novel in The Devil's Ledger series, a chilling collection of supernatural thrillers filled with haunted houses, cursed families, tragic pasts, and the unquiet dead. Perfect for fans of gothic horror, psychological suspense, and ghost stories that linger long after the last page.
___________________________________________________________________
Praise for The Devil's Ledger series:
? ? ? ? ? If you are a Stephen King or Robert McCammon fan, you need to read this author.
? ? ? ? ? This was exciting, gripping, and wonderfully written.
? ? ? ? ? This is a very well written, scary, suspenseful story which totally grabbed me.
? ? ? ? ? This book was a perfect haunted house book.
? ? ? ? ? Great mystery with a lot of creepiness. It felt a bit like an old gothic mystery.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0367-1007-1 (9781036710071)
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Ben Cheetham is an award-winning writer with a passion for horror and crime fiction. His novels have been widely published around the world. In 2011 he self-published Blood Guilt. The novel went on to reach no.2 in the national eBook download chart, selling well over 150000 copies. In 2012 it was picked up for publication by Head of Zeus. Since then, Head of Zeus has published three more of Ben's novels - Angel of Death, Justice for the Damned and Spider's Web. In 2016 his novel The Lost Ones was published by Thomas & Mercer. Ben lives in Sheffield, England, where he spends most of his time shut away in his study racking his brain for the next paragraph, the next sentence, the next word...