The Fifth Step

Something behind the staircase wall knows the Grady family by name—and it keeps counting wrong. After relocating to a decrepit Victorian nestled in the fog-choked streets of Gray Hollow, single father Marcus Grady notices the impossible: every night, the house tallies five residents instead of four. A dead woman's hidden journal offers cryptic warnings but no easy answers. Now Marcus must decipher its secrets before whatever lurks between the steps finishes its count.