The Devastation of Bartholomew Ka

It’s 1978. And Bartholomew Ka has been dead for almost one hundred years. He spends his days roaming the house where he committed suicide. The occupants of the beloved Victorian house he built have come and gone—some more forcefully than others, due to Bartholomew’s ability to get inside their heads. Those occupants may have painted the banisters pink and carpeted the original wood floors, but in the end, Bartholomew always remains. When twenty-eight-year-old Samantha moves in, Bartholomew thinks it’ll be easy to be rid of this most recent occupant. But despite his tactics of terror, headstrong Sam is unfazed. She’s determined to make her new life work… which includes restoring the old Victorian to its former glory. Perhaps she isn’t so bad an occupant, after all. As the weeks pass and the house shows improvement, Sam and Bartholomew’s interactions develop from hatred into a friendship. But when Sam starts showing interest in the carpenter restoring the home, Bartholomew can’t stand the idea of her belonging to someone else, even if Sam is living and he is not—although that could change…