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This review will appear on my site on October 28, 2021
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This is the perfect novel to be read around Halloween! We are dealing with the multiple tragedies of the past and is this house haunted or not?  Only time and reading Home Before Dark will tell! 

Maggie Holt was just 5 years old when her family fled Baneberry Hall, the house they stayed in for just three weeks.  After the family’s ordeal, her father Ewan wrote a book based on their experiences and the book became a spectacle that Maggie has dealt with her whole life.  Being she was just five years old, and has no memories of the house and what may or may not have happened, she never believed her father.  It has now been 25 years and Ewan has died and left Baneberry Hall to Maggie.   Not even knowing that he still owned the home and not believing her father’s ‘non-fiction’ book, she decides she can fix up Baneberry Hall and then sell it.  But what Maggie gets is more than she bargains for when she returns to town. 

We get two narrators with Home Before Dark:  We get Ewan’s narration through the book he wrote and we also have Maggie’s narration in present day.  And let me just say that Baneberry Hall is definitely its own character in this novel: In fact it is really the star! 

There is definitely the horror element throughout this novel!  Is it ghosts of the past still haunting or something else?  Let me just say, if you don’t like snakes, then there is a part of this book that you must avoid!  
We do get full conclusions to everything that has happened at Baneberry Hall and we end up with a satisfying yet scary novel from Sager! 

Home Before Dark is recommended!