The Eye in the Ceiling

For Paige Moore, a freshman at Kew College, everything begins the night she witnesses a robbery in a small New England town. When she reports the break-in, Paige becomes the lone eyewitness to an epic caper. And that's when things turn weird.

Paige had never heard of the early American architect H.H. Richardson or Harvard's secret Porcellian Club, but she is soon drawn into secret societies and a hundred-year-old architectural mystery, realizing that there is more to this sleepy town and its 19th century architecture than anyone could imagine.



Paige enlists her college friends to help her solve these mysteries: Melissa and Jill, fashionable gold-digging roommates, and Sheila, a dance-your-pants-off free spirit. Meanwhile, Paige meets her Harvard dream-guy, Stoph, who works nights as a mashup maestro DJ, but is he too good to be true?

The Eye in the Ceiling is a deft, propulsive and hilarious thriller that penetrates the secrets of the old New England village known as Shovel Town.

JULIE SAMPSON is the author of two non-fiction books - Elite Wrestling (McGraw Hill 2007) and Beginning Wrestling (Sterling Publishing 2000). Her articles have been published in The New York Times and Newsday. She was the sports editor of Imprint newspapers in Connecticut. She was the winner of the Fall 2020 Writer's Weekly 24-hour short story contest. The Eye in the Ceiling is her first novel.