House of the Rising Sun

When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son, Nicky, from the skeletons emerging from both of their pasts.

When the Howell family moves into a house on Heckler Lane, it causes quite a stir in the small town of Sunny Cove, Pennsylvania. Elise Howell, a well-known cardiac surgeon, has returned home after fifteen years to fill her recently deceased mother’s position at Sunny Cove General Hospital. In a town this size, it is big news. But it is Elise’s new husband, Artie, who has everyone talking.

Artie Howell is a man who always seems to be smiling. He is an accomplished crime fiction writer, a devoted soccer dad to their young son Nicky, and he spends his weekends volunteering as a creative writing instructor at the local detention center. When they first arrived on Heckler Lane, the Howells appeared to be a wholesome American family.

Then the murders began.

When a nun goes missing from the Convent of St. Mary, it marks the first in a string of unexplained tragedies to strike the town—events that all seem eerily connected to scenes from Artie’s novels. Soon, the writer finds himself the prime suspect in an investigation that threatens not only to tear his family apart, but to unravel the entire town of Sunny Cove.