A year and a half after escaping her abusive ex, Tabitha is just trying to move on. She has a steady job at a bar in the city, shares a cramped apartment with a slightly aloof orthodontist, and has even occasionally considered making friends with her coworkers. Still, she can’t shake the effects of her experiences so easily, and she struggles with constant nightmares, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts that seem to have no relevance to her life whatsoever.

Shortly after falling asleep in a strange house after a bad night at work, she begins to discover she isn’t having intrusive thoughts at all — she’s seeing other people’s memories.

Drawn inexplicably to an abandoned house that almost seems to have been made for her, she dreams of memories of people across the world and through time, and feels a peace and safety within its walls she hasn’t felt anywhere in years. As she dreams, these memories come to life, filling the house with the strangest companions Tabitha has ever had.

But when an all-too familiar nightmare manages to pierce even the mysterious house’s walls, she realizes she’s going to have to stop running and stand her ground once and for all.

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Tabitha couldn’t tear her eyes away. Now that she was here, she felt an overwhelming longing she couldn’t explain. She wanted nothing more than to enter the house. She didn’t know how, but she was almost certain that there was no one inside—and beyond that, that she was supposed to be. She slowly locked her car doors as if in a trance, pocketed her keys, and walked toward the door. Something in the back of her mind screamed at her that this was ridiculous, that some poor stranger was going to find a bloodied and exhausted young woman trying to pull open the doors to their lovely home after dark. But she went anyway.