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"Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 150 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.

Taking up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea, Lizzie Borden, a suspect in the brutal deaths of her father and stepmother, waits with an axe to stop the evil that is rising from the ocean's depths to consume her.