A Sudden Light is the fourth novel by American author Garth Stein published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster, set in 1990 in Washington State.

"[1] In 1990, 14-year-old Trevor Riddell tried to save his parents marriage following a trial split.

He and his father Jones arrive at the family's huge tree mansion overlooking Puget Sound where he meets his seductive aunt Serena and grandpa Samuel suffering from dementia.

His father and aunt plan to sell off the house and grounds to divide up the profits and to send Samuel to an assisted living facility.

Trevor finds that the house is inhabited by a ghost who wants the family patriarch Elijah to return the house and surrounding forest to its original natural state as a penance for Elijah's exploitation of millions of trees harvested over the years...