Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches, 1) [Priest, Cherie]

The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea and far from gossip and scrutiny. But it is not far enough from the affliction that possessed my parents. Their characters, their verysouls, were consumed from within by something that left malevolent entities in their place. It originates from the ocean