Luke Cole has spent thirty years believing his little brother drowned when they were children.
Then he finds out the drowning never happened.
After his mother dies, Luke returns to his childhood home with his nine-year-old son to clean out the house. What should be a few painful days of sorting through boxes turns into something else when an old board game brings back memories of the secret rules Luke and his brother once used to survive their father.
Skip the third stair.
Stay close to the kitchen counter.
Freeze if the recliner moves.
And whatever you do…
Don’t wake Daddy.
Then a longtime neighbor says something impossible.
Luke’s brother Kevin was still alive after the day Luke remembers burying him.
Luke begins searching old newspapers, funeral records, police files, and the belongings his mother left behind. With every answer, another piece of his childhood changes.
Kevin didn’t drown.
The body at the funeral wasn’t his.
And Luke’s mother knew far more about her missing son than she ever admitted.
Now Luke must uncover what really happened inside the house where he grew up—and confront the possibility that the story he was given wasn’t meant to help him remember.
It was meant to make sure he never asked questions.
For fans of Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs and Riley Sager’s Home Before Dark, DON’T WAKE DADDY is a haunting psychological mystery where every answer changes the past—and some family secrets were buried for a reason.
Genre: Mystery
Then he finds out the drowning never happened.
After his mother dies, Luke returns to his childhood home with his nine-year-old son to clean out the house. What should be a few painful days of sorting through boxes turns into something else when an old board game brings back memories of the secret rules Luke and his brother once used to survive their father.
Skip the third stair.
Stay close to the kitchen counter.
Freeze if the recliner moves.
And whatever you do…
Don’t wake Daddy.
Then a longtime neighbor says something impossible.
Luke’s brother Kevin was still alive after the day Luke remembers burying him.
Luke begins searching old newspapers, funeral records, police files, and the belongings his mother left behind. With every answer, another piece of his childhood changes.
Kevin didn’t drown.
The body at the funeral wasn’t his.
And Luke’s mother knew far more about her missing son than she ever admitted.
Now Luke must uncover what really happened inside the house where he grew up—and confront the possibility that the story he was given wasn’t meant to help him remember.
It was meant to make sure he never asked questions.
For fans of Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs and Riley Sager’s Home Before Dark, DON’T WAKE DADDY is a haunting psychological mystery where every answer changes the past—and some family secrets were buried for a reason.
Genre: Mystery
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