ChristiPike
Some people choose their houses. But this house chooses them.
In 1946, newlyweds Lillian and Pete escape post-war New York and stumble into Brightford--a quiet New Hampshire town, where a local glass artist and a mysterious, half-forgotten house seem to call to them. As they rebuild the home at 33 Willow Bend Road, something awakens inside its walls: a steady, living magic that listens, understands, and gives people what they need... even when they don't know how to ask.
In 2025, Mara is freshly broken up, emotionally guarded, and perfectly content living a small, controlled life with her dog, Tucker. That is until a drive north pulls her back toward her childhood road and toward the same yellow house. When the porch light flickers to life only for her, Mara realizes the house hasn't been abandoned at all.
It's been waiting.
A dual-timeline story of love, healing, found family, and a haunted kind of hope, where a house-and the light that crowns it-holds magic that doesn't shout, but whispers. A house that holds the power to change the lives of everyone who enters.