Excerpt from Playing With Fire

Here’s a teaser from the draft of Playing With Fire, the second book in the Freak House Trilogy. It’s a little bit sinister, in keeping with the general atmosphere of this book. (Yardley is the foreman overseeing building work at the house):

Yardley bent over and fought for breath. “Come quickly,” he said between gasps. “There’s something strange in the dungeon.”

“The dungeon?” Jack shook his head. “Frakingham House doesn’t have a dungeon.”

“He must mean the basement,” Sylvia said.

“No, ma’am. I mean the dungeon. And forgive me, sir, but you do have one. Come with me and I’ll show you. Anyways, you need to see this with your own eyes. I don’t know how to explain it.”