My Haunted House: The Crazy Within (The Houses We Survive)

Some houses are haunted by ghosts. Others are haunted by memory.

Others are made of fear, silence, secrets, and survival.

For Savannah, childhood did not happen in a safe place. It happened inside a haunted house — not haunted by ghosts, but by the terror of a mother lost inside untreated mental illness, emotional abuse, and the unpredictable darkness that filled every room.

In My Haunted House: The Crazy Within, the first book in The Houses We Survive series, Savannah looks back on the house that shaped her, the childhood she endured, and the invisible wounds carried by children who grow up afraid of the person they are supposed to trust most. For years, Savannah lived inside a house built from fear, silence, and survival. Behind closed doors, love was tangled with control, motherhood with manipulation, and childhood with wounds no one could see.
Raw, reflective, and deeply human, this fictionalized story rooted in emotional truth explores family mental illness, mother-daughter trauma, survival mode, and the desperate hope of escape.

Mental illness is often told from the perspective of the afflicted.

This is the story of the child who lived in its shadow.

Before the dark days could be over, Savanna first had to survive the haunted house.