2026 brings the paperback release of The House of Last Resort. A supernatural thriller about a one‑euro home in a nearly deserted Sicilian town (the kind of bargain that always hides a cost).

Tommy and Kate Puglisi arrive in Becchina hoping for a fresh start, only to find a house with sealed rooms, strange noises, and a history the locals refuse to discuss. The Church has been involved here before, heavily, and whatever they tried to contain has been waiting far longer than the couple has been alive.

The horror leans into slow‑creeping unease: a town hollowed out by something unspoken, a house that feels watched rather than empty, and the sense that the past is not finished with its occupants. It’s less a renovation project and more an inheritance of someone else’s unfinished haunting.

The House Keeper placed this on the list with a small, satisfied nod. “Homes like this don’t settle,” she said. “They wait.”

Whether she meant the fictional house or ours was unclear. We decided not to press the matter.

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