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"Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and s`he's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...

Smaller, more environmentally-friendly houses seem to be the wave of the future. As people chose to move out of cities, finances and life style will limit the size of the houses these new home owners will choose. One or both people in the home may have lost their job or the jobs may not be as secure as they were before the pandemic. Even with a future vaccine, people are aware that social distancing situations can occur again and they want to be prepared....

The four visitors at Hill House-- some there for knowledge, others for adventure-- are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.

Practical Rachel Lindquist, having returned to California to care for her aging mother Addie, is disturbed by her parent's insistence that Drake House is haunted, and even more unsettled by the attentions of Bryan Hennessy, the parapsychologist hired by Addie to investigate the ghostly presence.

In their magic treehouse, Jack and Annie are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.

One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life.

When their father disappears while investigating a mystery surrounding a house rumored to be either haunted or an abode for criminals, the Hardy boys search for the truth.