Heirloom

by April R. Wilson

Every family has secrets. Things that make them unique. Many family secrets will be taken to the grave, but others will take you with them. Glendale Road is nestled in the historic district of Clermont, Florida. Housewives spend the day patrolling the neighborhood with their annoyingly small dogs, and the evening is spent gossiping from the front porch. Glendale Rd is not a place to be strange or unusual, and it's not a place to have secrets. Delores Dorsey collected quite a few secrets after the death of her husband. When she meets a sudden and unusual death, Delores' son, Tony, and his wife attempt to empty his childhood home and prepare it for sale. Tony and Hannah stumble upon a ritual room hidden below the home. As they begin to discover what horrors are hidden within the house, they face the consequences of his mother's actions, and they fight to escape the house before they meet a similar fate.

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2020

About the author

April Wilson is a wife, a mother, a runner, and an author. When she's not working her day job in marketing and sales, her nose is either buried in a book or her laptop ticking away at her next novel.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tony's mother died. He and his wife Hannah are clearing out her former home and come across a hidden basement. What was his mother into? What do those occult items mean? What happens to his wife? The story has many fine eerie ingredients but they didn't come into full flavor. After each uncanny situation the plot changes and gets banal. I really would have liked to know more about the evil rites practiced down in that basement. Why did the neighbor's dog die? Why said the neighbor Tony's mother was a witch? All those sidetracks were confusing and didn't bring the story forward. The author should have written a longer novella or a short punchy story. Overall it was okay but I missed more details on the shadowy horror down below.