House of Whispers

By Katherine Moore and James Moore

Carolyn Walsh is recovering from a nervous breakdown when she discovers an impossibly cheap Victorian house listing in Baltimore-1644 Montpelier Street. Despite the realtor's obvious reluctance and unsettling warning signs, Carolyn feels inexplicably drawn to the abandoned mansion, haunted by phantom ships and the overwhelming scent of lavender and brine. The house feels like coming home, even though she's never been there before. Unable to resist its pull, she moves in and begins investigating the property's dark history, uncovering the mystery of the MacKenzie family: a shipping magnate's four daughters who vanished without a trace in the early 1900s, leaving behind only handmade dolls, cryptic letters, and whispers of lost ships that never returned home.

Alone in the decaying house, Carolyn begins experiencing vivid hallucinations-or are they memories?-of Louise MacKenzie and her sisters, who seem to be calling to her across the decades. The walls breathe with the scent of the sea, phantom music plays from empty rooms, and voices whisper her name in the darkness. As the boundaries between past and present blur, the house reveals its true nature: a vessel constructed from the timbers of lost ships, hungry to complete a voyage interrupted over a century ago. With her grip on reality loosening and her connection to the MacKenzie sisters deepening, Carolyn must decide whether to flee while she still can-or embrace a transformation that promises belonging at an irreversible cost, blurring the line between the living and the dead, between wood and water, and between a Victorian mansion and the ships that sail through her dreams.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMWVR25W
• ISBN13: 9798247784890
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"