The Sister's Homecoming

Raina Winters (no longer Elanor) has finally settled into the normal life she's always wanted. She even has the family that she and her twin sister Evie have always wished for, a family that was completed with the birth of her little sister, Rosemary (Rosie as she likes to call her). Except...things aren't as happy as they seem. Just two months after her little sisters' birth, Rae notices a few...changes in her Mother and Father. For one thing, Mia's temper has grown incredibly short. But the most concerning thing is how she's begun treating Rae: distant and cold, as though Rae were an outsider in her perfect little family. Ethan, for his part, has become increasingly anxious and paranoid since Rose's birth. He's so busy worrying and planning for every possible thing that could go wrong, he can hardly give his oldest daughter the time of day, leaving Rae fearing that Mia and Ethan regret adopting her and that they now resent her. She begins wondering if she's a burden on her family.

And then, the worst happens

Uncle Chris becomes the monster Rae always feared would come one day to drag her back down to the hell that the Connections had created for her. With her Mother dead, and her baby sister missing, Rae sees her long-coveted family falling apart before her very eyes. How can she be expected to let her happiness go, now that she's found it? It's a race against time for Rae to reconnect with her Father, locate her little sister, and flee this Village from Hell, before the looming presence of this "Mother Miranda" they've heard about becomes a frightening reality. Rae thought that the circumstances of her birth were behind her...

In reality, it was only just the beginning.