House of Reckoning
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- Synopsis
- After the untimely death of her mother while she is still in her early teens, Sarah Crane is forced to grow up quickly--in order to help tend her family's Vermont farm and look after her grieving father, who's drowning his sorrow in alcohol. But their quiet life together is shattered when her father is jailed for killing another man in a barroom brawl, and injuring Sarah in a drunken car crash. Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, she finds a mentor eager to nurture her talent for painting. But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral home, the mansion called Shutters, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing. Monstrous images from the house's dark history seem to flow unbidden from her paintbrush-images echoed by Nick's chilling hallucinations. Trapped for ages in the shadowy rooms of Shutters, the violence and fury of long-dead generations has finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the living. And Sarah and Nick have found a power they never had: to take control, and take revenge.
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 291 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780345514240
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 01/24/10
- Copyrighted By:
- John Saul
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Horror, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- solstice singer
- Proofread By:
- Marilyn
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.