Workaholic developer Richard Gardener is laid up at home for two week's mandatory leave--doctor's orders. No stress. No computers. Just fourteen days of complete rest.
Bliss for most, but hell for Richard... in more ways than one. There's a darkness that lives inside Richard's home; a presence he never knew existed because he was seldom there alone.
Did he just imagine those footsteps? The smoke alarm shrieking?
The woman in his kitchen?
His wife thinks that he's just suffering from work withdrawal, but as the days crawl by in his solitary confinement, the terror seeping through the walls continues to escalate--threatening his health, his sanity, and his marriage.
When the inconceivable no longer seems quite so impossible, Richard struggles to come to terms with what is happening and find a way to banish the darkness--before he becomes an exile in his own home.
INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR, STEVEN JENKINS
Q - What scares you?
A - Plenty! That's why I love horror so much. I grew up reading scary ghost stories and watching horror movies like The Exorcist and The Amityville Horror, and those always gave me nightmares. They still do, especially with the recent influx of horror on the big screen - Paranormal Activity, The Conjuring, etc.
Q - Do you believe in ghosts?
A - Definitely! Having my very own haunted house was inspiration for my debut novel, Fourteen Days. I saw a woman, sitting at my dinner table, looking straight at me - and it is wasn't my wife! Spooky, right? But there are advantages of living in a ghost house: great ideas for future novels!
Q - What is your favourite novel?
A - Without question, I am Legend, by the late-great Richard Matheson. It still amazes me that he could have written such a modern masterpiece in 1954. Apart from my haunted house, he has been, by far, my biggest inspiration.
Q - What was the last novel you read?
A - Warm Bodies, by Isaac Marion. Don't get me wrong, I love a good scary ghost story, but I'm a sucker for a zombie gore-fest!
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