While seventeen year-old Carrie Reese's parents were working out the details of their divorce, she headed to Villisca, Iowa to stay with her grandparents. Villisca was home to the infamous Axe Murder House... It's known to be haunted by the ghosts of the victims and their killer. Carrie doesn't believe in ghosts, but the moving curtains and red flashes of light in the windows of Lot 310 were starting to give her reason to watch her back. Then in walked Lucas... Within days, Carrie knew she was in love. But Lucas seemed strange: his hands were cool and hollow, he barely touched his food, and there was sadness behind his brilliant green eyes. Lucas was falling for Carrie but knowing that loving her puts her in grave danger, he reluctantly slips out of her life.... He struggles between staying away and telling Carrie his darkest secret. Unable to stand being apart from her any longer, he decides she must know.
