The Cake House

Rosaura Douglas’s father shot himself after her mother left him … or at least that’s the story everyone is telling. Now her mother has remarried and Rosie is trapped in The Cake House, a garish pink edifice in the hills of Los Angeles that’s a far cry from the cramped apartment where she grew up. It’s also the house where her father died-a fact that everyone else who lives there, including her mother, Dahlia, and her mysteriously wealthy stepfather, Claude, want to forget.

Soon, however, her father’s ghost appears, sometimes in a dark window, sometimes in the house’s lush garden, but always with warnings that Claude is not to be trusted. And as the ghost becomes increasingly violent-and the secrets of her family’s past come to light-Rosie must finally face the truth behind the losses and lies that have torn her life apart.