The Secret Attic

A House With Good Bones meets The Perfect Marriage in USA Today bestseller Chelsea Conradt's latest psychological thriller. In this house, the past won’t stay packed away. And neither will the truth.

Addison Lowe always has a plan. She’s a methodical CPA, the kind of person who takes notes on TikTok recipes to get them just right. So when her mother-in-law—who openly hated her—dies and leaves behind a hoarder’s house, she prepares to tackle it with ruthless efficiency. Her husband, Luke, is grieving and spiraling, and she needs to be there for him, even if that means taking on the bulk of the cleanout.

But what should have been a painful but straightforward project becomes something else entirely. Every room, every box, every hallway seems to whisper secrets. Crows begin to visit Addison, offering strange gifts. And then, in a hidden attic space behind a secret door, she discovers a box labeled with a name that sounds eerily familiar: Cassidy Warren. A girl who disappeared years ago. A girl her husband once knew. A girl who, it seems, may never have left this house. 

As Addison digs deeper into the attic, she finds more boxes, more names, and then dolls—uncannily lifelike ones with human hair and trinkets tied to missing girls. And then, in a fit of rage at Luke’s naiveté, she uncovers something unthinkable. It’s clear to Addison that her mother-in-law wasn’t simply hateful; she was dangerous. She hurt people, had wanted to hurt Addison, and the secrets she was keeping are all about to come out—secrets her husband may have known about all along…