This item, along with several more, seem to invite ghosts into their new home… “What if objects didn’t just hold memories, but held traces of the people who touched them, threads that connected them still?”Īs the building progresses, Helen sources a beam made from the tree that Hattie Breckenridge was hung from. When Olive finds this necklace in the bog on Helen’s land, she fears that something bad might have happened to her mother… On a silver chain, it is comprised of shapes surrounding an eye. Since her mother ran off last year, she and her daddy have been remodeling their house in the hopes of making it nicer upon her mother’s much hoped for return. Olive too is not without building skills. She tries to sabotage the build and freak out Helen and Nate by stealing from them… Eventually though, Olive becomes friends with the couple and even helps them in their work. Olive does NOT want them here! She is on a mission to find some buried treasure that once belonged to Hattie Breckenridge and with the couple moving in, it spoils her plans. Next we meet Olive Kissner, a fourteen year-old girl who lives down the road from Helen and Nate’s acreage. When he sees an albino deer on their new property near the bog, he becomes quite obsessed with getting a photograph of the animal… He is an avid nature lover and keeps a notebook of his wildlife sightings.

Nate, a former science teacher, scoffs at anything considered ‘paranormal’. When she learns that the land upon which they are building their house is reputed to be haunted, Helen is thrilled.

She wants to incorporate some old materials into her new home to give it some authentic history. Helen, a former history teacher, is also an historian whose field of expertise is early America. They buy acreage and, while living in an old decrepit trailer on the property, they proceed to build a saltbox style house. What they don’t have in manual skill, they have in enthusiasm. For some this would be a fool-hardy project, but they both have building skills. They plan to build their dream house – by themselves. They have pooled the money they got from selling their condo with an inheritance from Helen’s father. Present Day – Helen and Nate Wetherell have quit their secure teaching jobs in Connecticut to move to rural Vermont. They come en mass to her home and lynch her.

The school burns, children die, and the townspeople blame Hattie. When she predicts that the school will burn, she keeps her daughter home on that day. “ The Invited” takes place in rural Vermont and tells the story of a husband and wife who don’t simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it’s too late…

The invited jennifer mcmahon