The House That Spelled Her Name

When sixteen-year-old Mara Kerr moves with her family into the neglected house at the end of Briar Lane, she believes the place is only another punishment in a year already filled with loss, debt, and disappointment. The house is cold, damp, and unwanted, with dead ash trees behind it, a locked cellar beneath it, and a village full of people who look away whenever its name is mentioned. Then Mara finds an old spirit board hidden beneath the stairs.
Her mother wants it thrown away at once. Her father calls it rubbish. Her little brother, Toby, thinks it is only a game. But that night, after the board is taken from the house and dumped at the end of the lane, it returns by itself. Soon the planchette begins to move without hands. A dead girl whispers Toby's name in the dark. Messages appear in places no one has touched. Doors unlock in the night.
The cellar begins to breathe beneath the floorboards. As Mara tries to uncover the truth, she realises the spirit board is not calling random ghosts from the other side. It is connected to Briar Lane itself, to a forgotten tragedy, to a child who should have stayed buried, and to something far older than the dead. The house does not want to be cleansed. It wants to finish what began years ago. As the haunting tightens around her family, Mara must decide whether the board is warning her or using her.
Every answer it gives leads deeper into the house's history, and every question brings the thing behind the board closer to the living. By the time Mara understands the rules, the game has already chosen its next name. The House That Spelled Her Name is a dark supernatural horror novel about grief, family secrets, cursed objects, and the terrible danger of opening a door that was never meant to be opened.