In order to keep costs low, you may decide to create a small safe room in the basement with the structural ceiling. Falling debris can be extremely dangerous, so by adding a solid, structural ceiling, you will increase the likelihood of your family being unharmed. This ceiling will help protect the occupants if the home above succumbs to wind forces. To take your basement safe room one step further, you may want to add a structural ceiling. Without making any changes to the typical basement, you will have walls that will withstand even the highest wind speeds. One of the easiest ways to add a safe room to a new home plan is with a basement due to the fact that they are below ground and naturally resistant to wind damage. Unlike any other room in the house, a safe room is a fortified room hidden inside the home that is constructed with a high-security lock, thus providing you and your family with shelter against home invasions or natural disasters. A safe room may be a necessity for this very reason. She lives in Boston and is working on her next novel.One of the biggest design trends in new homes is safe rooms.* With all of the natural disasters we have experienced over the last several years, people are starting to think about ways to protect their families should Mother Nature wreak havoc on their community. Shapiro was also nominated for a 2013 Massachusetts Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2013 New England Book Award for Fiction, a 2013 Massachusetts Must-Read Book award, and a 2012 Boston Globe Best Crime Book award. Shapiro is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger, five additional novels, four screenplays, and a nonfiction book.
Shapiro gives the reader a bit of mystery, a bit of romance, a ghost story and social history." - Publishers Weekly "Barbara Shapiro has proved her mastery of the suspense thriller." -William Martin, New York Times-bestselling author "One of the best of the new breed of suspense writers-Barbara Shapiro is definitely one to watch!" -Lisa Scottoline, New York Times-bestselling author "Increasingly eerie connections with the past, a missing bracelet, and murder make this a recommended choice for readers of psychological suspense." - Library JournalĪbout the Author B. The Safe Room is a suspenseful tale that employs love and the paranormal to explore the ugliness of injustice and the beauty of human hope. Sarah and Silas's story is intertwined with that of Lee Seymour, a modern-day descendant of the Harden family who must suddenly grapple with a world in which murder and ghosts are all too real. It follows the doomed love affair of Silas Person, a runaway slave riding the Underground Railroad, and Sarah Harden, the daughter of a famous abolitionist. A psychological thriller, the tale toggles between the eve of the Civil War and present day.
Set in Lexington, Massachusetts, The Safe Room is a story of such a murder and such a haunting. How long can murder haunt a family? Until the wrong is put right and the victim is able to rest in peace. About the Book Set in Lexington, Massachusetts, on the eve of the Civil War and in the present, The Safe Room follows the doomed love affair between Silas Person, a runaway slave riding the Underground Railroad, and Sarah Harden, a famous abolitionist's daughter who befriends him.īook Synopsis A pre-Civil War era murder haunts a present-day family in this atmospheric suspense novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Art Forger.
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