House of Reckoning
of John Saul
Description
After the untimely death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up quickly in order to help tend her familyâs Vermont farm and look after her grieving father, whoâs 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, Sarah finds a mentor eager to nurture her talent for painting.But within the walls of Bettinaâs ancestral home, the mansion called Shutters, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing. Monstrous images from the houseâs dark history seem to flow unbidden from Sarahâs paintbrushâimages echoed by Nickâs chilling hallucinations. Trapped for ages in the shadowy rooms of Shutters, the violence and fury of long-dead generations have 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.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 294 pages
- Publisher Ballantine Books
- Publication Date October 13th 2009
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780345514240
- Edition Not informed
- Category Horror & Paranormal
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