Radie and Rex Noble have never recovered from the loss of their mother and grandmother a decade ago. Now their grandfather—an amateur entomologist they affectionately call "Bug Man"—has died under mysterious circumstances, and their family reunites at his isolated Indiana farmhouse to clean and settle his affairs. What should be a simple get-together instead becomes a reckoning with everything the family has spent years refusing to confront.

Radie begins to suspect that Rex’s new boyfriend, Liam, knows more about Bug Man's death than he’s willing to admit. But when she confronts him, Liam walks into the woods and doesn’t return. Meanwhile, strange scratching echoes inside the walls of the old house, and a dense fog rolls in. When Radie's sister and father disappear too, Radie follows clues hidden in her grandfather's journals to find them. In the process, she uncovers a long-buried secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family.

THE HOUSE OF BUG MAN is a gothic novel about grief, family silence, and the fragile line between memory and truth.