All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage

A man comes home to find his wife murdered and his young daughter left all day with the body. Then comes the back story. A young couple buys a farmhouse that has been foreclosed after the owners have died and their sons gone to live with an uncle. The boys come to help out with the house and grow to like the wife and her daughter. The husband, not so much. We get a history of the house which is violent and sad much like the childhood of the boys who grow up there and the woman who will be isolated there. There is bitterness, there is jealousy but there is also a tender relationship between Catherine and the boys. The small town can't hide a secret for very long and will never forget it's history. It is up to the humans to make it right. Fast paced beginning that dives headfirst into a tragedy. My only criticism is that the ending is a bit too perfect.