The Dark Days Are Over (The Houses We Survive)

Savannah escaped the haunted house.

But escape was never the same as freedom.

At nineteen, she believes marriage will finish what running away started. A new name, a new life, a man with gentle eyes, and a promise of forever — surely this is what healing is supposed to look like. But the girl who left the haunted house soon discovers that the darkness she survived did not stay behind. It followed her into love, motherhood, sisterhood, grief, and every room where she tried to become someone new.

The Dark Days Are Over continues Savannah’s story as she moves through young marriage, divorce, betrayal, motherhood, the complicated ache of a narcissistic mother, the invisible wall between sisters, and the devastating truth that even the safest-looking families can still hide monsters. Through the births of her children, the loss of the grandparents who once saved her, the unthinkable betrayal, and the arrival of a granddaughter who feels like the beginning of something healed, Savannah begins to understand that being chosen is not the same as being saved — and surviving is not the same as being free.

Raw, poetic, and deeply human, this second book in The Houses We Survive is a story about the wounds we carry into adulthood, the families we keep trying to save, and the moment a woman finally stops calling darkness home.

The haunted house was only the beginning.

This is the story of what came after.