![]() On her first night, she is horrified to find Penny Dare, daughter of the estate's original owner, dead by suicide, her face covered in garish makeup as though it had been done by a child. The residency program that Eleanor has been charged with leading at Cliffside has brightened the estate's dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a "waiting room for death." She can hardly wait to be surrounded by writers and artists-the peaceful lakeside grounds just as much a retreat for her as for them.Įleanor quickly realizes the death, suffering, and rage that filled Cliffside are far from erased by time.įrom her first fog-filled moments at the manor, Eleanor is seized by a sense of impending doom. So, when she's offered the Director position at Cliffside Manor's renowned artists' retreat, she jumps at the chance to trade courtrooms and criminals for paintbrushes and poetry-even if she isn't entirely sure why she's been offered the job. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eleanor Harper's years as a journalist working the crime beat for the city paper have taken their toll. ![]()
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