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Condemned: An Outer Banks Novel of Suspense
Every night, someone counts to eleven.
Everybody on Hatteras Island knows the Black Pearl, the black house standing in the surf at Mirlo Beach. It is condemned and boarded up, with no power for years, and the state means to tear it down on November 1. Its owner won’t set foot in it after dark.
Renae Basnight takes the listing anyway. Then she finds wet footprints that climb the stairs and never come down, a warm ring on an upstairs windowsill, and the smell of a kerosene lamp in a house with no lamp in it.
A salvage man wants the heart-pine pilings underneath. A ghost-hunting influencer wants Halloween night live from inside. And a retired band teacher from Roanoke, who has dreamed of a light in a high window his whole life, only wants to stand in the room upstairs.
With a nor’easter bearing down on the highest tide of the year, Renae has twelve days to learn who has been waiting in that window since the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, and who she’s waiting for.
Some lights are left on for a reason.
Hatteras Listings, Book Six. A haunting, heartfelt Outer Banks suspense novel about the people we keep the light on for. Each book stands on its own.
Everybody on Hatteras Island knows the Black Pearl, the black house standing in the surf at Mirlo Beach. It is condemned and boarded up, with no power for years, and the state means to tear it down on November 1. Its owner won’t set foot in it after dark.
Renae Basnight takes the listing anyway. Then she finds wet footprints that climb the stairs and never come down, a warm ring on an upstairs windowsill, and the smell of a kerosene lamp in a house with no lamp in it.
A salvage man wants the heart-pine pilings underneath. A ghost-hunting influencer wants Halloween night live from inside. And a retired band teacher from Roanoke, who has dreamed of a light in a high window his whole life, only wants to stand in the room upstairs.
With a nor’easter bearing down on the highest tide of the year, Renae has twelve days to learn who has been waiting in that window since the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, and who she’s waiting for.
Some lights are left on for a reason.
Hatteras Listings, Book Six. A haunting, heartfelt Outer Banks suspense novel about the people we keep the light on for. Each book stands on its own.
261 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 20, 2026
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