Leda has spent fifteen years haunted by the memories of her childhood home. So, when her mother's death forces her to return she has every intention of making it a brief farewell. But the house has other plans. Plunging Leda into the darkness of the past, it forces her to relive the childhood traumas she's been trying to forget. In the end, she realizes the house wont surrender-it must be overcome. And the secret she needs lies in the depths of the old mine behind the house... Midnight Mother reveals a kind of grief that lingers long after the last page. Horton delivers a family history written in blood, seasoned with mental illness and trauma, and wrapped in a house that won't be ignored.