The Invited

I was a little disappointed by this one, it was just a bit too predictable (if I can figure it out, then you know everyone else can, too). Nate and Helen leave behind their secure lives in Connecticut to buy a plot of land in Vermont and build their dream house. The land they bought used to belong to Hattie Breckenridge: a local woman who was hanged in the 1920s for witchcraft. Helen does a lot of research into Hattie's life and before long it turns into an obsession. She's filling the new house with things that have ties to Hattie in some way, and even goes to a seance to communicate with her ghost. Meanwhile Olive, who is Helen and Nate's closest neighbor, is still mourning the loss of her mother a year earlier. Rumor is she ran off with another man, and Olive is watching her dad slowly fall apart. She's determined to find Hattie's rumored buried treasure, convinced that will bring her mom home. She tries to scare Nate and Helen off their land (since she wants to search there) but instead ends up becoming friends with them and helping them work on their house. Like I said, the ending was predictable, and it wasn't a bad story all in all. I ended up liking Helen and Nate more than I thought I would at first.