About the book: 2024 / Never pick up the phone in an abandoned house. A call from the past can make you the culprit of someone else's tragedy... Are there “hereditary maniacs”? A story about a disastrous secret that has been kept for many years in the basement of an old house. To reveal it, the heroine will have to relive the nightmare of a long-standing tragedy... Vika comes from the capital to the city of her childhood to sell the old house left after the death of her grandfather. The neighbors are not happy about her visit. For many years they have been sure that Vicky’s grandfather is the kidnapper and murderer of three boys. Although there is no evidence of this...Vika is in a hurry to finish her business and quickly leave the evil place. However, circumstances seem to deliberately not let the girl go: the neighbor’s seven-year-old son suddenly disappears. Searches yield no results. And again, like many years ago, everyone believes that one of the inhabitants of the bad house was involved in the incident... Is it really a family curse? Vika herself is already beginning to believe in this. Especially after he hears pleas for help from long-lost children in the receiver... of a disconnected phone…