A House on Brenthouse Road (Una casa en Brenthouse Road)

Marked by the loss of her great love in a terrorist attack, Emma Patel buys an old house in London to start over. But within its damp walls beats a bloody past—and a terrifying future.

Seven years after losing her great love, Matt, in a terrorist attack, Emma Patel tries to rebuild her life. She buys her first home in London, an old property at 8 Brenthouse Road—so cheap it seems like a bargain or… a warning. The real estate agent hints at something in its past, but Emma doesn’t want to hear it. She wants to turn the page. She wants to forget.

On her first night in the house, a note appears under the door: “WELCOME, EMMA.” No one should know she moved in except her best friend Will, a few coworkers from the café where she works, and Chris, a man she met on a dating app who soon revealed himself as an obsessive stalker.

From then on, something fractures the apparent normality of Emma’s life in the new house: she hears noises at midnight, glimpses shadows crossing the hallway, and sees every day the same elderly woman watching her from the window across the street—although her daughter insists she has been bedridden for years.

Every stormy night, exactly at 9:10 p.m., the knocking on the door begins. Then the footsteps. The whispers. The blood that appears on the floor and vanishes by dawn. And the anonymous, sinister notes signed by a mysterious “Always with you, always yours,” whose identity and motives remain unknown.

Agatha, the neighbor, tells Emma that the house hides a terrible story: in 1963, a married couple—Thomas and Margaret Ryan—lived there until both disappeared without a trace after a night filled with screams. Local legends speak of murder and a body buried inside the walls. When Emma, terrified, breaks down a wall in her bedroom, she finds the unthinkable: a skeleton.

Inspector Sam Brown, the police officer who arrives at the scene, looks disturbingly familiar. He is the same man who saved her life during the attack. From that moment on, their connection becomes inevitable. But as their attraction grows, so does the danger. Chris reappears, sending her flowers, then a funeral wreath bearing her name and the dates “1995–2024.” Shortly afterward, he is found dead.

With Sam’s help, Emma digs deeper into the truth behind Brenthouse Road. She discovers that Thomas Ryan was murdered by Brigitte—the same neighbor still watching her from across the street—in an attempt to protect Margaret, who lived for decades under a different identity. But the revelation does nothing to stop the phenomena: the walls keep whispering, and the footsteps keep climbing the stairs.

When Emma attends an exhibition by painter Simon Parker, the house’s former owner, the horror escalates. At the center of the gallery hangs a painting titled Girl in Danger, depicting her: drenched in the rain, staring in terror at an approaching shadow. Simon swears he has never met her and that he simply painted what he saw in his visions.

That night, the prophecy is fulfilled. In the middle of the storm, Emma faces her worst nightmare: Will, her lifelong friend, reveals himself as the true monster. He has been watching her for years, tormented by guilt for surviving Matt; he loves her and hates her in equal measure. He attacks her in her own home. Only Sam—who kills him with a single shot—manages to stop him.

Emma survives. Or so she thinks. Months later, just when she finally begins to breathe again, a note appears on her nightstand. The same handwriting. The same words:
“Always with you. Always yours.”

RELEVANT INFORMATION: Lorena Franco is a writer and actress from Barcelona. She began self-publishing on Amazon and is now one of the platform’s most popular and best-rated authors. She is considered the queen of audiobooks and has been translated into multiple languages. She has twice been a finalist for the Amazon Storyteller Literary Award—in 2016 and 2022—and has accumulated thousands of positive reviews.

A House on Brenthouse Road combines psychological suspense with supernatural horror, playing with the ambiguity between the real and the paranormal, keeping the audience in constant tension. Its atmosphere recalls titles like The Others or The Woman in the Window, and it has strong potential for a film or series adaptation, with all the classic elements of a horror story: a house with a life of its own, disturbing histories, and unsettling characters who are not what they seem.

AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie.

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.